Profanation vs Profanity - What's the difference?
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The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.
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*:those which mocke and condemne it, intend neverthelesse to wrong this noble vertue; but onely to condemne the abuse and profanation of so sacred a title.
*1826-06 , The Gentleman's Magazine , page 528:
*:but there is a time and a season for all things, and we look upon such attempts as that before us, with a certain portion of respect for a good intention, but as a lamentable want of judgment and good taste, not to speak of a familiarity with the phraseology of Scripture, little short of profanation .
(uncountable) The quality of being profane.
(countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
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As nouns the difference between profanation and profanity
is that profanation is the act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement while profanity is the quality of being profane.profanation
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Sam Leith
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.}}