All 4 Uses of
blasphemy
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He came to the woman, the weaker vessel, and poured the poison of his eloquence into her ear, promising her—O, the blasphemy of that promise!†
Chpt 3 *
- The mouths of the damned are full of blasphemies against God and of hatred for their fellow sufferers and of curses against those souls which were their accomplices in sin.†
Chpt 3
- —Blasphemy!†
Chpt 5
- —A bloody ape, Cranly repeated with emphasis, and a blasphemous bloody ape!†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(blasphemy) something said or done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion