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blasphemer

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Word definitions for blasphemer in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who commits blasphemy; a person who mocks or derides a deity or religion, or claims to be God.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who speaks disrespectfully of sacred things

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blasphemer \Blas*phem"er\, n. One who blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God ? --Pope.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for a religious deity or the irreverence towards religious or holy persons or things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Blasphemer may also refer to: "Blasphemer", ...

Usage examples of blasphemer.

I think perhaps the Analects of Utuhegal the Blasphemer, or perhaps it was Thorald Moonaxe.

The torments of the Third and Fourth Hells are also relatively light, and are designed for such sinners as bad bureaucrats, backbiters, forgers, coiners, misers, dishonest tradesmen, and blasphemers.

Horsethief Shorty Wilson, namely, he liked and trusted hellraisers, blasphemers, whoremongers, and loudmouthed alcoholics, knowing exactly how to keep the edge off by paying them fair and feeding them well to boot.

The rest joined Sunshiny and Jerry in pelting the blasphemer with a dozen flapping, undersize tropical fish.

Lastly there was a very small contingent of extremists, Zwinglians and Anabaptists, all classed together as blasphemers and as social agitators.

Avarice, or Covetousness, which is the root of all harms, since its votaries are idolaters, oppressors and enslavers of men, deceivers of their equals in business, simoniacs, gamblers, liars, thieves, false swearers, blasphemers, murderers, and sacrilegious.

They had been exhorted to defend the faith of their fathers from blasphemers.

As a lesson to all blasphemers he shall die upon the altar at the hand of the god he has profaned.

So it now became obvious that the apocalypse would come on New Year's Eve, 1921, when Hibbard's followers would be wafted up to heaven, while the fornicators, the scoffers, the meat-eaters, the Darwinians, the blasphemers, and all the rest of us rubbish would be hurled, twisting and screaming, into eternal fires.

By the fecundity of my kind and the fevered twists of their DNA, I call upon the Great Master of Selective Breeding to make an example most hideous of these blasphemers!

No matter what suspicion lurked within his crafty mind, Lu-don, the high priest of A-lur, did not openly question Tarzan's right to the title of Dor-ul-Otho, and it may be that he was restrained by the same doubts which had originally restrained Ko-tan and his warriors--the doubt that is at the bottom of the minds of all blasphemers even and which is based upon the fear that after all there may be a god.

My search led to Fray Osorio, a Dominican monk in Veracruz who has gained great expertise at examining for the Holy Office of the Inquisition secret Jews, Moors, sorcerers, witches, warlocks, and other blasphemers.

The good fray practices the dictates of the founder of his Dominican order, the sainted Dominic, the first inquisitor, who advised that when dealing with blasphemers and heretics, we must fight the devil with fire and told his followers that "when kind words fail, blows may avail.

And those Fedraysha blasphemers, who hunted down gods and killed them wherever they found them—on Yonada, on Beta, on Avros, on Gamma Trianguli—they took advantage of her hubris, used her as their puppet to spread their evils, to destroy every vestige of the Yonadan way of life as they had destroyed the Oracle.

The blasphemers begrudged them this privilege, and so took the battle to the Halls themselves to lay them waste.