Both Uses of
blasphemy
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It took her a moment to recover her eyesight; she had never known what was meant by blasphemy or what one felt on encountering it; she knew it now.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- He felt a sightless, heedless fury, part-horror, part-pleasure-the horror of committing an act he would never dare confess to anyonethe pleasure of committing it in blasphemous defiance of those to whom he would not dare confess it.†
Chpt 3.4
Definition:
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(blasphemy) something said or done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion