All 11 Uses
blasphemy
in
The Chrysalids
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- It is a blasphemy against the true Image of God, and hateful in the sight of God.
Chpt 1 *blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred
- A blasphemy was, as had been impressed upon me often enough, a frightful thing.†
Chpt 1
- I knew them by heart, just as I knew others elsewhere in the house, which said things like: THE NORM IS THE WILL OF GOD, and, REPRODUCTION IS THE ONLY HOLY PRODUCTION and, THE DEVIL IS THE FATHER OF DEVIATION, and a number of others about Offences and Blasphemies.†
Chpt 2blasphemies = things said or done that are disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion
- Usually there was only some small thing wrong, but however much or little was wrong it was an Offence, and if it happened among people it was a Blasphemy — at least, that was the technical term, though commonly both kinds were called Deviations.†
Chpt 2blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred
- You, my son, committing blasphemy, and before his parents!†
Chpt 3
- Who was this child — this Blasphemy — you were with yesterday?' he shouted.†
Chpt 5
- In a quiet, ordinary voice he said to me: 'You know, David, concealment of a Blasphemy — not reporting a human deviation — is a very, very serious thing.†
Chpt 5
- It's always important, and very important indeed if it is a Blasphemy.†
Chpt 5
- But Blasphemies are not treated the same way as Offences.†
Chpt 6blasphemies = things said or done that are disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion
- So there has been a Deviation; and deviation, any deviation from the true image is blasphemy — no less.†
Chpt 7blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred
- 'All these concealments — and they'll try again for want of a proper lesson; women who've given birth to a Blasphemy just going to church and saying how sorry they are and they'll try not to do it again; Angus Morton's great-horses still around, an "officially approved" mockery of the Purity Laws; a damned inspector who just wants to hold his job and not offend them in Rigo — and then people wonder why we get tribulated seasons ....'†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(blasphemy) something said or done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)