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To blaspheme is to speak against God, or against what a religion holds holy — to insult it, laugh at it, or treat the names of God and holy things as if they were just rude noise when you swear. It is a strong, serious verb. In some places it is even a legal word: a person can be accused of this. In everyday English people also stretch it a little, for any disrespectful talk about a faith. Religious people feel it as a wound; other people may use it only when they want to mark that a line has been crossed. Though actually, what counts as blaspheming depends on who is listening — a joke that one group finds harmless can be a deep insult to another.
褻瀆（神明、信仰）；拿神的名字來罵
組成From Middle English blasfemen / blasphemen, from Old French blasfemer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō), “to speak ill.”
同家族的字
- blamea doublet: the same Greek root came into English by another path, and narrowed toward “say someone did wrong”
- blasphemythe noun for the act or the words
- blasphemousthe adjective
- blasphemerthe person who does it
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
blasphemeverb詞源 1/ˌblæsˈfiːm/
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To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
- But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
- Thus from the holy Warres are we return'd, / To ſlumber in the Summer of ſoft peace, / Since thoſe proud enemies that late blaſpheamd / And ſpit their furies in the face of Heaven, / Are now laid low in duſt.
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To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
- So Dagon ſhall be magnifi'd, and God, / Beſides whom is no God, compar'd with Idols, / Diſglorifi'd, blaſphem'd, and had in ſcorn […]
- How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name?
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To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
- You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.
- Those who from our labours heap their board, / Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。