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blasphemes

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verb

  1. To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
  2. To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
  3. To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.

noun

  1. 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 is a form of blasphemy.”
  2. (by extension) An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable; the act of disregarding a convention.

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