Blasphemy

Definitions: Blasphemy

Blasphemy

Noun

1. Blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred).

2. Blasphemous behavior.

Date "blasphemy" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Etymology: Blasphemy \Blas"phe*my\, noun. [Latin expression blasphemia: compare to Old French expression blasphemie.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Blasphemy

Domain	Definitions
Bible	Blasphemy In the sense of speaking evil of God this word is found in Ps. 74:18; Isa. 52:5; Rom. 2:24; Rev. 13:1, 6; 16:9, 11, 21. It denotes also any kind of calumny, or evil-speaking, or abuse (1 Kings 21:10; Acts 13:45; 18:6, etc.). Our Lord was accused of blasphemy when he claimed to be the Son of God (Matt. 26:65; comp. Matt. 9:3; Mark 2:7). They who deny his Messiahship blaspheme Jesus (Luke 22:65; John 10:36). Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost (Matt. 12:31, 32; Mark 3:28, 29; Luke 12:10) is regarded by some as a continued and obstinate rejection of the gospel, and hence is an unpardonable sin, simply because as long as a sinner remains in unbelief he voluntarily excludes himself from pardon. Others regard the expression as designating the sin of attributing to the power of Satan those miracles which Christ performed, or generally those works which are the result of the Spirit's agency. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
	To dream you are cursing yourself, means evil fortune. To dream you are cursed by others, signifies relief through affection and prosperity. The interpretation of this dream here given is not satisfactory. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Specialty Definition: Blasphemy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Blasphemy is defamation of God or gods. Many cultures disapprove of speech or writing which defames the God or gods of their established religions, and these restrictions have the force of law in some countries.

The public domain 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary defines blasphemy as:

Blasphemy (Blas"phe*my) n. [L. blasphemia, Gr. : cf. OF. blasphemie.]

An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity. When used generally in statutes or at common law, blasphemy is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence.

Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.

Blasphemy laws

There has been a recent tendency in Western countries towards the repeal or reform of blasphemy laws, and these laws are only infrequently enforced where they exist. Such laws still exist in several countries, such as Spain (Article 525 of the criminal code), Germany (Article 166 of the criminal code), and Italy. In the United States, the First Amendment guarantees a relatively unlimited right of free speech, although some US states still have blasphemy laws on the books. Chapter 272 of Massachusetts' criminal code states, for example:

Section 36. Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.

Synonyms: Blasphemy

Synonyms: desecration (n), profanation (n), sacrilege (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Blasphemy

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impiety	Noun: impiety; sin; irreverence; profaneness; Adjective: profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; scoffing;Verb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Blasphemy

Specialty definitions using "blasphemy": Blasphemy. (references)

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Modern Usage: Blasphemy

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	That includes blasphemy as well! (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) This taking of of other planets it's almost like an act of blasphemy. (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley) Sir, you speak blasphemy! (Tuck Everlasting; writing credit: Jeffrey Lieber) Blasphemy! Oh, you'll smoke a turd in hell for that! (The Survivors; writing credit: Michael Leeson)
Lyrics	At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk (Thirty-Three; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)
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Commercial Usage: Blasphemy

Domain	Title
Books	Blasphemy (reference) Blasphemy and Exaltation in Judaism: The Charge Against Jesus in Mark 14:53-65 (Biblical Studies Library) (reference) Blasphemy in Modern Britain: 1789 to the Present (reference) Pacts With the Devil: A Chronicle of Sex, Blasphemy and Liberation (reference) Womb of Monsters: Or, the Fine Art of Blasphemy in a Post-Religious World (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Blasphemy (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Five Years of Blasphemy (reference) Forever Blasphemy (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Familiar Quotations: Blasphemy

Author	Quotation
Alistair Cooke	Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Blasphemy

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Pakistan	However, Nawaz and his two sons were arrested and charged with blasphemy. (references)
	Pakistan	Several days later, they were released on bail; the blasphemy case against them remained pending at year's end. (references)
	Pakistan	On April 1, police registered a blasphemy case against Pervez Masih, a Christian teacher in Sialkot District, Punjab. (references)
Human Rights	Pakistan	Under the ordinances, many blasphemy cases now are tried by antiterrorist courts. (references)
	Pakistan	Human rights advocates feared that if blasphemy cases were tried in the antiterrorist courts, alleged blasphemers, who in the past normally were granted bail or released for lack of evidence, likely would be convicted, given the less stringent rules of evidence required under the Anti-Terrorist Act. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Blasphemy

"Blasphemy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blasphemy" is used about 145 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	145	26,217

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blasphemy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
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against blasphemy ghost holy	2
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Modern Translations: Blasphemy

Language		Translations for "blasphemy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		blasfemi (profanity), sharje e zotit. (various references)

Arabic		‏الكفر (atheism, faithless), ‏التجديف. (various references)

Bulgarian		клевети (muck, obloquy), богохулство (oath, profanity, swear). (various references)

Chinese		褻瀆的話 , 亵渎 (Profanity). (various references)

Czech		rouhání (curse). (various references)

Dutch		vloek, vervloeking, godslastering. (various references)

Esperanto		blasfemo. (various references)

Farsi		ناسزا(گوءی), کفر (Atheism, Heresy, Infidelity, Profanity), توهین به مقدسات (Sacrilege). (various references)

Finnish		jumalanpilkka, häväistys (affront, insult, profanation, violation). (various references)

French		blasphème. (various references)

Frisian		flok. (various references)

German		gotteslästerung (profanity). (various references)

Greek		βεβήλωση (defilement, desecration, profanation, sacrilegiousness, violation), βλασφημία (curse, cuss, profanity, swearing). (various references)

Hebrew		חלול �"שם (libel), חרוף (abuse, curse, invective), �'�"וף (abuse, curse, insult, invective, obloquy, profanity, revilement, scorn, swearword, vilification, vituperation), � אוץ (abuse, cursing, execration, profanity, reviling), � אצ�" (abuse, contempt, swearword). (various references)

Hungarian		istenkáromlás (profanities, profanity). (various references)

Indonesian		penghinaan (abjection, disdain, disparagement, humiliation, indignity, sebasement), pemfitnahan (aspersion, calumniation, defamation, libeling, slandering), hujatan. (various references)

Italian		bestemmia (curse, nonsense, oath, swear word). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		涜神 , �'涜 (curse, desecration, profanity, sacrilege), �'とく (curse, desecration, profanity, sacrilege), 不敬 (disrespect, impiety, irreverence, profanity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぼうとく (curse, desecration, profanity, sacrilege), ふけい (agnate, castration, disrespect, guardians, impiety, irreverence, parents and older brothers, policewoman, prefectural police, profanity), とくし�" (being convinced of, being satisfied, consenting to, devotion, devoutness, special promotion, understanding). (various references)

Manx		peccah noi'n Spyrrd Noo, mollaghtoil (blasphemous), goan mollaghtagh, ard-vollaght (execration, malediction). (various references)

Pig Latin		asphemyblay

Portuguese		blasfêmia (curse, profanity, swearing). (various references)

Romanian		blestem (ban, calamity, cancer, curse, damn, damnation, execration, hardship, imprecation, malediction, offence, perdition), blasfemie, hulã (backbiting, calumny, curse, defamation, ground swell, hula-hoop, impiety, slander, swell), fãrãdelege (misdeed, sacrilege, trespass). (various references)

Russian		кощунство (sacrilege), богохульство (oath, profanity). (various references)

Scottish		blaisbheum. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bogohuljenje. (various references)

Spanish		blasfemia (oath, profanity). (various references)

Swahili		ukufuru. (various references)

Swedish		hädelse. (various references)

Turkish		küfür (a bad word, abuse, contumely, curse, cuss, cuss word, expletive, invective, invectives, oath, profanity, revilement, scurrility, strong language, swearing, swearword), dine küfretme. (various references)

Ukranian		блюзнірство (sacrilege). (various references)

Vietnamese		lời báng bổ. (various references)

Welsh		cabledd, cabl (reviling). (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Blasphemy

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	blasphemia. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	blasphematio, blasphemia, blasphemiae, blasphemiam, blasphemias, blasphemiis. (various references)
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Bible Trace: Blasphemy

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 7, Verse 22
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Klopai pleonexiai ponhriai doloV aselgeia ofqalmoV ponhroV blasfhmia uperhfania afrosunh
Latin	405	Vulgate	Furta avaritiae nequitiae dolus inpudicitia oculus malus blasphemia superbia stultitia
Old English	990	West Saxon	Stale. gytsunge. man facnu. scamelest.yfel ge-sihðe. desynysse. ofer-modignessa.stunt-scipe.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Fornycaciouns, mansleyingis, theftis, auaricis, wickidnessis, gile, vnchastite, yuel iye, blasfemyes, pride, foli.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Theeft coveteousnes wickednes diceyte vnclennes and a wicked eye blasphemy pryde folysshnes:
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness;
Basic English	1964	Ogden	The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
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Matched Bible Translations: Blasphemy

Language	Mark Chapter 7, Verse 22
Cebuano	kaibog, kadautan, limbong, kaulag, kasina, panulti sa pagbuling sa dungog, pagkamapahitas-on, binoang,
Croatian	preljubi, lakomstva, opakosti, prijevara, razuzdanost, zlo oko, psovka, uznositost, bezumlje.
Danish	Hor, Havesyge, Ondskab, Svig, Uterlighed, et ondt Øje, Forhånelse, Hovmod, Fremfusenhed;
Dutch	Dieverijen, gierigheden, boosheden, bedrog, ontuchtigheid, een boos oog, lastering, hovaardij, onverstand.
Finnish	aviorikokset, ahneus, häijyys, petollisuus, irstaus, pahansuonti, jumalanpilkka, ylpeys, mielettömyys.
French	les vols, les cupidités, les méchancetés, la fraude, le dérèglement, le regard envieux, la calomnie, l`orgueil, la folie.
Gaelic	Goid, sannt, drochbheart, foill, mi-gheamnachd, droch-shuil, blaisbheum, uabhar, aimideachd.
German	Dieberei, Geiz, Schalkheit, List, Unzucht, Schalksauge, Gotteslästerung, Hoffart, Unvernunft.
Hungarian	Lopások, telhetetlenségek, gonoszságok, álnokság, szemérmetlenség, gonosz szem, káromlás, kevélység, bolondság:
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	berzinah, menipu, memfitnah, serta melakukan segala sesuatu yang jahat, menjadi serakah, tidak sopan, iri hati, sombong, dan susah diajar.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	permukahan, kekikiran, kejahatan, tipu, hawa nafsu jahat, mata jahat, hujat, congkak, kebodohan.
Italian	adultèri, cupidigie, malvagit� , inganno, impudicizia, invidia, calunnia, superbia, stoltezza.
Latvian	Zâdzîbas, mantkârîba, blçdîbas, viltîba, nekaunîba, skaudîga acs, Dieva zaimoðana, lepnîba, vieglprâtîba.
Maori	O nga tahae, o nga kohuru, o nga puremu, o nga hiahia apo, o nga kino, o te tinihanga, o te hiahia taikaha, o te kanohi kino, o te kohukohu, o te whakapehapeha, o te wairangi:
Norwegian	hor, havesyke, ondskap, svik, skamløshet, ondt øie, bespottelse, overmot, uforstand.
Portuguese	a cobiça, as maldades, o dolo, a libertinagem, a inveja, a blasfêmia, a soberba, a insensatez;
Rumanian	furtiwagurile, lqcomiile, viclewugurile, knwelqciunile, faptele de ruwine, ochiul rqu, hula, trufia, nebunia.
Russian	ЛТБЦЙ, МЙИПЙНУФЧП, ЪМП�'Б, ЛПЧБТУФЧП, ОЕ� ПФТЕ�'УФЧП, ЪБЧЙУФМЙЧПЕ ПЛП, �'ПЗПИХМШУФЧП, ЗПТ�"ПУФШ, �'ЕЪХНУФЧП, --
Shuar	kasamkatniusha, chikichna wakeruktincha, pénkercha Túratniusha, anankatniusha, natsantain átincha, yajauch Enentáimtustincha, tsanumpratniusha, waantu Enentáimtumastincha, netse Túratniusha, Ashí nuka initia wininiatsuk.
Spanish	los adulterios, las avaricias, las maldades, el engaño, la sensualidad, la envidia, la blasfemia, la insolencia y la insensatez.
Swahili	uzinzi, uchoyo, uovu, udanganyifu, ufisadi, wivu, kashfa, kiburi na upumbavu.
Swedish	äktenskapsbrott, girighet, ondska, svek, lösaktighet, avund, hädelse, övermod, oförsynt väsende.
Uma	mobualo', mebagiu, metipo', pai' mpobabehi wori' nyala to dada'a. Mpokahina anu doo, mohingi', molangko nono, nakeni hina nono to dada'a, uma tuduia'.
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Misspellings: Blasphemy

Misspellings
	"Blasphemy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: basphemy, blasephemy, blashemy, blashphemy, blaspemy, blasphamy, blasphemey, blasphemoy, blasphemyu, blaspheny, blasphimy, blasphmey, blasphmy, blasphomy, blasthemy, Blazheni, Bleasham, Blisham. (additional references)
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Rhyming with "Blasphemy"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "blasphemy" (pronounced bla"sfumē)
4	-f u m ē	infamy.
3	-u m ē	academy, alchemy, anatomy, anomie, appendectomy, Archenemy, astronomy, autonomy, dichotomy, economy, enemy, epitome, gastronomy, hysterectomies, hysterectomy, keratotomy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, monogamy, polygamy, prostatectomy, sesame, sodomy, tonsillectomy, vasectomy.
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Anagrams: Blasphemy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-l-m-p-s-y"
	-2 letters: shamble, shapely.
	-3 letters: alephs, almehs, ambles, basely, belays, blames, blypes, embays, lymphs, maples, maybes, measly, phylae, plashy, sample, shaley.
	-4 letters: ables, abyes, abysm, aleph, almeh, almes, amble, ample, amply, amyls, bales, balms, balmy, beams, beamy, belay, bemas, blahs, blame, blams, blase, blype, embay, ephas, haems, hales, halms, hames, haply, heals, heaps, helms, helps.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-l-m-p-s-y"
	+3 letters: imperishably.
	+4 letters: blasphemously.
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