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prophanity

prophanity is the obsolete spelling of profanity.

Meaning of profanity

Noun

profanity (countable and uncountable, plural profanities)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.
    • The overwhelming power of his imagination led him to contemplate acts of impiety and profanity, and to a vivid realisation of the dangers these involved.1910, John William Cousin, “Bunyan, John”, in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
  2. (countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
    • He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.

Forms of prophanity

pluralprophanities

Questions about prophanity

What is prophanity the obsolete spelling of?
Prophanity is the obsolete spelling of profanity.

Words near prophanity in the dictionary

  1. prophaner
  2. prophanes
  3. prophanest
  4. prophaning
  5. prophanities
  6. prophanity
  7. propharyngeal
  8. prophase
  9. prophaseis
  10. prophases
  11. prophasic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prophanity (page history and authors); profanity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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