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Impiousness vs Swearing - What's the difference?

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Impiousness is a related term of swearing.


As nouns the difference between impiousness and swearing

is that impiousness is of being impious while swearing is the act of swearing, or making an oath.

As a verb swearing is

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impiousness

English

Noun

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  • of being impious.

    • swearing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing' doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of '''swearing''': vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "' swearing " itself.}}

    Noun

  • The act of swearing, or making an oath.
  • * (Daniel Defoe)
    • No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.

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