blasphemy

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. irreverence, profanity; heresy. See impiety. Ant., piety.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. impiety, sacrilege, profanity, irreverence, disrespect, swearing, cursing, obscenity, lewdness, reviling, scoffing, profanation, profaneness, desecration; see also curse 1 , heresy .

Ant. worship, piety*, prayer, reverence.

Syn.- blasphemy , the strongest of the following terms, is used of a remark deliberately mocking or contemptuous of God or something held as sacred; profanity applies to language that makes impious use of sacred names; swearing and cursing , in this connection, both refer to the utterance of profane oaths and imprecations, the latter more particularly to the calling down of evil upon someone or something

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n.

[BLAS fuh mee]

any show of disrespect toward the divine, irreverence.

Cursing God for your misfortune is blasphemy.

SYN.: irreverence, sacrilege, profanity, disrespect, impiety, desecration, cursing, denouncing. ''Denying the being or providence of God. . . .''—William Blackstone.

ANT.: reverence, piety, respect

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. An act of disrespect or impiety toward something regarded as sacred: desecration, profanation, sacrilege, violation. See SACRED. 2. A profane or obscene term: curse, epithet, expletive, oath, swearword. Informal: cuss. See DECENT, SACRED, WORDS.