Both Uses of
blasphemy
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dantes uttered blasphemies that made his jailer recoil with horror, dashed himself furiously against the walls of his prison, wreaked his anger upon everything, and chiefly upon himself, so that the least thing,—a grain of sand, a straw, or a breath of air that annoyed him, led to paroxysms of fury.†
Chpt 15-16
- A blasphemy.†
Chpt 35-36 *
Definition:
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(blasphemy) something said or done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion