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Look up: Blasphemy

  1. blasphemy
    [n] - blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. blasphemy
    Written or spoken insult directed against religious belief or sacred things with deliberate intent to outrage believers. Blasphemy was originally defined in the UK as `publishing any matter which...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  3. Blasphemy
    Swearing in the name of God, denying the existence of God, saying evil things about God etc.
    Found on http://www.stpeter.dircon.co.uk/pages/gl

  4. Blasphemy
    Blas'phe·my noun [ Latin blasphemia , Greek ... : confer Old French blasphemie .] 1. An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; sp...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/63

  5. blasphemy
    noun blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred)
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Blasphemy
    • (n.) Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification. • (n.) 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...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. blasphemy
    irreverence toward a deity or deities and, by extension, the use of profanity.
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/77

  8. blasphemy
    blasphemy 1. Blasphemous language; expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred. 2. The act of depriving something of its sacred character. 3. A contemptuous or profane act, utterance, or writing concerning God or a sacred entity. 4. The act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rig...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  9. blasphemy
    blasphemy, in religion, words or actions that display irreverence toward or contempt for God or that which is held sacred. Blasphemy is regarded as an offense against the community to varying degrees, depending on the extent of the identification of a religion with the society at large or the govern...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  10. Blasphemy
    To attribute to God that which is contrary to his nature and does not belong to him, and to deny what does or is a false reflection uttered with a malicious design of reviling God.
    Found on http://www.lectlaw.com/def/b106.htm

  11. Blasphemy
    Blasphemy is the denying of the existence of God, assigning to him false attributes, or denying his true attributes; contumelious reproaches of Jesus; profane scoffing at the Holy Scriptures, or exposing them to ridicule and contempt. In Catholic countries it also includes the speaking contemptuousl...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  12. blasphemy
    Written or spoken insult directed against religious belief or sacred things with deliberate intent to outrage believers
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  13. Blasphemy
    `Blasphemy` is irreverence toward holy personages, religious artifacts, customs, and beliefs. The Abrahamic religions condemn blasphemy vehemently. Some countries have laws to punish blasphemy, while others have laws to give recourse to those who are offended by blasphemy. Those laws may discourage ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy

  14. Blasphemy
    (band) `Blasphemy` are a black/death metal band formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1984. The band released a demo titled Blood Upon the Altar in 1989 and their debut album, Fallen Angel of Doom, the following year through accessdate=2008-01-21-->--> Their second an...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy

  15. Blasphemy
    (novel) `Blasphemy` is a novel by Douglas Preston that was released on January 8, 2008. Plot summary: Isabella, a powerful particle accelerator has been constructed in Red Mesa in the remote Arizona desert, the most expensive machine ever built by science. A team of scientists under th...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy

  16. Blasphemy
    (album) Name = Blasphemy | Type = studio | Artist = Dark Domination | Cover = | Released = 2001 <br/> 2003 (re-release) | Re-Release = 2003 | Genre = Black metal, black ambient | Length = 1:07:55 | Label = Beverīna (with support of Ketzer Records), Hallucionation `Zine (re-release) | Pr...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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