Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who blasphemes; one who speaks of God or of religion in impious and irreverent terms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who blasphemes.
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- noun One who commits
blasphemy ; a person who mocks or derides a deity or religion, or claims to beGod .
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- noun a person who speaks disrespectfully of sacred things
Etymologies
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Examples
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Father, who is "a jealous God," have raised such a blasphemer from the dead and exalted him to His right hand?
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That he, that sweet and charitable follower of his Master, should be abused by her, should be dubbed blasphemer and have the cherished memory of his mother defiled by her pietistic utterances, was something that inflamed me horribly.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912
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They that condemned him for a blasphemer were themselves the vilest blasphemers that ever were.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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He was laughed at by crowds of people, spit on with everyone watching, stripped in front of military men, and called a blasphemer before a religious council.
A Man from Issachar 2010
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Terri wrote: Um.. vercingetorix, the whole reason Christ was crucified was because he challenged Levitical law and was called a blasphemer for it.
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Terri wrote: Um.. vercingetorix, the whole reason Christ was crucified was because he challenged Levitical law and was called a blasphemer for it.
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Um.. vercingetorix, the whole reason Christ was crucified was because he challenged Levitical law and was called a blasphemer for it.
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That anti-Christ, Hagee predicted, will be German, a "blasphemer," gay and "partly Jewish -- as was Hitler, as was Marx."
Bruce Wilson: Hagee Mass-Marketed Hitler's Favorite Conspiracy Theory 2008
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An abstract discussion of free speech, in which, to quote Webster again, no distinction is made 'between the freedom to impart information and the freedom to insult' (ibid.), is in effect a strategy which isolates the would-be 'blasphemer' from the actual historical and interpersonal constraints which secure a reasonable level of civility in human society (after all, we do restrain freedom of speech by laws about libel and slander).
Archbishop's lecture - Religious Hatred and Religious Offence 2008
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An abstract discussion of free speech, in which, to quote Webster again, no distinction is made 'between the freedom to impart information and the freedom to insult' (ibid.), is in effect a strategy which isolates the would-be 'blasphemer' from the actual historical and interpersonal constraints which secure a reasonable level of civility in human society (after all, we do restrain freedom of speech by laws about libel and slander).
Archbishop's lecture - Religious Hatred and Religious Offence 2008
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