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From Middle English blasfemen, blasphemen, from Old French blasfemer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blame.

blaspheme (third-person singular simple present blasphemes, present participle blaspheming, simple past and past participle blasphemed)

  1. (intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
    • 1637, Thomas Heywood, The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. […], London: […] Nich[olas] and John Okes, for James Becket, […], →OCLC, Act I, signature [A4], recto:
      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.
  2. (transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
  3. (transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.

to speak against God or religious doctrine

From Middle English blasfeme, blasphem, blaspheme, from Middle French blaspheme, from Old French blasfeme, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasphēmia, from Ancient Greek βλασφημία (blasphēmía).[1]

blaspheme (plural blasphemes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of blasphemy.

  2. ^ “blaspheme, _n._2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

blasphēme

  1. vocative masculine singular of blasphēmus

blaspheme

  1. alternative form of blasfemen

blaspheme

  1. alternative form of blasfeme

blaspheme

  1. alternative form of blasfeme

blaspheme

  1. alternative form of blasfemie