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Profanity is swearing - words that are considered rude, shocking, or offensive, often because they relate to religion or the body in a crude way. Using profanity means using this kind of bad language, and it's usually seen as unacceptable in polite conversation, school, or work.
髒話、粗話
組成profane + -ity; profane probably comes from Latin words meaning 'outside the temple' - in other words, not sacred
同家族的字
- profaneprofanity is built from profane plus -ity
原始詞典資料2 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。
profanitynoun/pɹəˈfænɪti/
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The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.
- The overwhelming power of his imagination led him to contemplate acts of impiety and profanity, and to a vivid realisation of the dangers these involved.
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Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
- He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.
- Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
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。