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blasphemous

adj
/ˈblæs.fəm.əs/UK

Etymology

From Latin blasphēmus (“blaspheming”), from Ancient Greek βλάσφημος (blásphēmos, “uttering ill-omened words”), equivalent to blaspheme + -ous.

  1. derived from βλάσφημος
  2. borrowed from blasphēmus

Definitions

  1. Lacking piety or respect for the sacred

    Lacking piety or respect for the sacred; resembling blasphemy.

    • His taking the name of God in vain was considered blasphemous.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at blasphemous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at blasphemous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at blasphemous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA