Concept cluster: Positive qualities > Blasphemy
n
(biblical) Faithlessness in religion.
n
(nonstandard) Adultery.
adj
unsporting, unsportsmanlike
v
(intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
n
A blasphemer.
n
An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act, utterance, view, etc.
adj
(role-playing games) Aligned against following or upholding laws and principles.
n
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
n
(countable) An act which is fraudulent or otherwise dishonest.
n
(nonstandard) The quality of being an enemy; enmity.
n
The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part.
n
(American spelling) Alternative form of honourability [A state or condition or being honourable.]
n
An advocate of immorality
n
(now usually derogatory) One with no religious beliefs.
adj
Destroying legal meaning or tradition.
n
The crime of violating majesty, an offense against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.
n
(often plural) A breach of social convention.
n
One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty.
n
The situation where members of a minority group put in only minimal effort (e.g. in school) since they believe that discrimination will in any case doom them to failure.
n
Alternative form of noli me tangere [(Christianity, art) A picture depicting Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene shortly after his resurrection from the dead (see the etymology).]
n
Stigma.
n
(derogatory) A policy of burying one's head in the sand, that is, ignoring the reality of a situation.
n
(Buddhism) excessive negation
n
The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
adj
(sociology) Marginalizing; making a group peripheral and thereby denying them access to something.
adj
Able to be profaned.
v
(obsolete) To profane.
n
The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.
adj
Involving or relating to profanation.
n
A person or thing that is profane.
adj
(nonstandard) Profane.
adj
(hypercorrect) Obsolete form of profane. [Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.]
adj
Showing rebellion.
n
Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.
n
(theology) A violation of God's will or religious law.
adj
(law) Not belonging to one.
n
A system of taboos.
n
One who is not experienced.
n
The antithesis or contradiction of (true) religion

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