MEANING
Speech or conduct regarded as insulting a deity or sacred things.
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- accused of blasphemy
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The priest accused him of blasphemy.
The image was condemned as blasphemy.
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- blasphemy
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural blasphemies for acts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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