All 4 Uses of
blaspheme
in
Dante's Inferno
- They blasphemed God and their parents, the human race, the place, the time and the seed of their sowing and of their birth.†
Canto 1-3 *
- When they arrive before its rushing blast, here are shrieks, and bewailing, and lamenting; here they blaspheme the power divine.†
Canto 4-6blaspheme = utter obscenities or profanities; or to speak disrespectfully of something considered sacred
- Violence may be done to the Deity, by denying and blaspheming Him in heart, and despising nature and His bounty: and therefore the smallest round seals with its signet both Sodom and Cahors, and him who despising God speaks from his heart.†
Canto 10-12
- The Leader stopped, and I said to that shade who was bitterly blaspheming still, "Who art thou that thus railest at another?"†
Canto 31-34
Definition:
utter obscenities or profanities; or to speak disrespectfully of something considered sacred -- especially of God or religion