blasphemouslyadv.
In a blasphemous manner; impiously, profanely.
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a1533 J. Frith in Test. W. Tracie (1535) sig. Biijv Ageynste the which manye men..haue blasphemously barked.
1611 Bible (King James) Luke xxii. 65 And many other things blasphemously spake they against him. View more context for this quotation
1665 G. Wither Medit. upon Lords Prayer 99 A woman, blasphemously termed her self the Virgin Mary.
a1745 J. Swift in Wks. IX. (1941) 166 He would blasphemously set up to controul the commands of the Almighty.
1874 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David IV. Ps. xcviii. 5 ‘This infectious frenzy of psalm-singing,’ as Warton almost blasphemously describes it.
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