English-Thai Dictionary

blasphemy

N การ สบประมาท หรือ การ ดูหมิ่น  การ สบประมาท ศาสนา  desecration profanation kan-sob-pra-mad-rue-kan-du-min

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLASPHEMY

n.An indignity offered to God by words or writing; reproachful, contemptuous or irreverent words uttered impiously against Jehovah. Blasphemy is an injury offered to God, by denying that which is due and belonging to him, or attributing to him that which is not agreeable to his nature.
In the middle ages, blasphemy was used to denote simply the blaming or condemning of a person or thing. Among the Greeks, to blaspheme was to use words of ill omen, which they were careful to avoid.
1. That which derogates from the prerogatives of God. Mark 2:7.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BLASPHEMY

Blas "phe *my, n. Etym: [L. blasphemia, Gr. : cf. OF. blasphemie. ]

 

1. An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

 

Note: When used generally in statutes or at common law, blasphemy is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence.

 

2. Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification. Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

blasphemy

blas phe my |ˈblasfəmē ˈblæsfəmi | ▶noun ( pl. blasphemies ) the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk: he was detained on charges of blasphemy | screaming incomprehensible blasphemies. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek blasphēmia ‘slander, blasphemy. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

blasphemy

blas |phemy |ˈblasfəmi | ▶noun ( pl. blasphemies ) [ mass noun ] the action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk: he was detained on charges of blasphemy | [ count noun ] : he was screaming incomprehensible blasphemies. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek blasphēmia ‘slander, blasphemy ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

blasphemy

blasphemy noun the nuns would punish me at least three times a week for my blasphemy: profanity, sacrilege, irreligion, irreverence, taking the Lord's name in vain, swearing, curse, cursing, impiety, desecration; archaic execration. ANTONYMS reverence.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

blasphemy

blasphemy noun he was condemned for his blasphemy: profanity, profaneness, sacrilege, irreligiousness, irreverence, taking the Lord's name in vain, swearing, curse, cursing, impiety, impiousness, ungodliness, unholiness, desecration, disrespect; formal imprecation; archaic execration. ANTONYMS reverence.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

blasphemy

blas phe my /blǽsfəmi /名詞 複 -mies U (神 神聖なものへの )冒涜 （ぼうとく ）, 不敬 ; C 冒涜的行為, 不敬な言動 (!profanity, swearingと比べ最も激しい語 ) .