Meaning

(intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

Thus from the holy Warres are we return'd, / To ſlumber in the Summer of ſoft peace, / Since thoſe proud enemies that late blaſpheamd / And ſpit their furies in the face of Heaven, / Are now laid low in duſt.

Mrs. Murphy: Don't you blaspheme in here!

So Dagon ſhall be magnifi'd, and God, / Beſides whom is no God, compar'd with Idols, / Diſglorifi'd, blaſphem'd, and had in ſcorn […]

How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name?

You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.

Those who from our labours heap their board, / Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord.

Word Forms

• blasphemes
• blaspheming
• blasphemed

Synonyms for blaspheme

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Use blaspheme when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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