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Sacrilege vs Swearing - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between sacrilege and swearing

is that sacrilege is desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred while swearing is the act of swearing, or making an oath.

As a verb swearing is

present participle of lang=en.

sacrilege

English

(wikipedia sacrilege)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.

    • Derived terms

    * sacrilegious

    References

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    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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