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blasphemous
CIDE DICTIONARY
blasphemous, a. [L. blasphemus, Gr. .].
Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. Porteus. [1913 Webster]
" Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable, as in the above example." [1913 Webster]
"Nor from the Holy One of Heaven
Refrained his tongue blasphemous." [1913 Webster]
Refrained his tongue blasphemous." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
blasphemous
Rabelaisian, abusive, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, calumniatory, calumnious, comminatory, contumelious, cursing, damnatory, denunciatory, dirty, disrespectful, dysphemistic, epithetic, evil, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, fallen, fallen from grace, foul, fulminatory, impious, imprecatory, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, maledictory, obscene, profanatory, profane, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, ribald, risque, sacrilegious, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, sinful, undutiful, vile, vituperative, wickedROGET THESAURUS
blasphemous
Impiety
N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.For further exploring for "blasphemous" in Webster Dictionary Online