blasphemer

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Fears as trifle as being called a blasphemer or sorcerer but most of all, the fear that the unity of Phoride would fall because of him Their attention was focused on the screen, at the images of flying machines.

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  1. One who blasphemes; one who speaks of God or of religion in impious and irreverent terms. Must … each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man but God? Pope, Epil. to Satires, ii. 195.

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  • Biterolf calls Tannhaeuser a shameless blasphemer, and challenges him to combat; Tannhaeuser replies bitterly; the surrounding nobles want to silence him; his anger becomes rage, and his rage madness; Wolfram tries to calm every one, but Tannhaeuser is now too far gone, and in “wildest exaltation” he chants the hymn he sang to Venus in the first act. —  Richard Wagner
  • Similarly, another article reads a story about an alleged 'blasphemer' got murdered by prisoners inside his jail. —  Pak Tea House
  • It means I'm a blasphemer, an outsider, an infidel. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • Anyone who objects to any of this will be deemed a 'blasphemer' by the new state religion. —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • And if Stephen had not been slandered as a blasphemer, he would not have seen the heavens opened and have looked on God —  orrologion
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  1. from Middle English blasfemere, from blasfemen, blaspheme.
 

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