blasphemy
nounEtymology
From Middle English blasfemie, from Old French blasfemie, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasphēmia, from Ancient Greek βλασφημία (blasphēmía, “profanity”), from βλασφημέω (blasphēméō, “to slander”).
- derived from βλασφημία
- derived from blasphēmia
- derived from blasfemie
- inherited from blasfemie
Definitions
An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred
An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act, utterance, view, etc.
- That imam said that drawing the prophet Muhammad was a form of blasphemy.
- Had God cancelled His everlasting Covenant with Israel? The mere thought was blasphemy! But what did God's silence and the present dark cloud mean?
- Look, I don't think it ought to be blasphemy, just saying "Jehovah".
An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable
An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable; the act of disregarding a convention.
The neighborhood
- neighborblaspheme
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at blasphemy. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at blasphemy. 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 blasphemy
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