prophanely

Barnstable, was fined fifty shillings for "prophanely" saying "that the law enacted about the ministers maintenance was a wicked and devilish one, and that the devil sat at the helm when the law was made."

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

He also marked and reported all those "who lye at home," and others who "prophanely behaved, lingered without dores at meeting time on the Lordes Daie," all the "sons of Belial strutting about, setting on fences, and otherwise desecrating the day."

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

But now they contained themselves in no bounds, and as freely and without controul inveighed against the person of the King, prophanely and blasphemously applying whatever had been spoken by God himself or the Prophets, against the most wicked and impious Kings, to incense and stir up the people against their most gracious Sovereign.

The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805

Time or Place, to conceive: I mean the emitting of 500,000 in Notes without Fund or Period; a Project, to outdo the Rhode-Islanders in Fraud, & to make these Bills more current, because worse than those of Rhode-Island: it is almost incredible to what a Pitch of Iniquity some People are arrived, even prophanely to lard their Proposals with Scripture Phrases, to impose upon the Vulgar waste Paper, instead of a valuable Medium.

A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1740

Time or Place, to conceive: I mean the emitting of 500,000 in Notes without Fund or Period; a Project, to outdo the Rhode-Islanders in Fraud, & to make these Bills more current, because worse than those of Rhode-Island: it is almost incredible to what a Pitch of Iniquity some People are arrived, even prophanely to lard their

A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1739

Debauchery, and would often talk prophanely, that yet refused to eat

An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War Bernard Mandeville 1701

So also is it, to live prophanely, incontinently, or do any irreligious act whatsoever.

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

"sloathefulness," for "walking prophanely," for spoiling hides when tanning and refusing explanation thereof; for selling short weight in grain, for being "given too much to Jearings," for "Slanndering," for being a

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881