Word of the Day: BLASPHEMATORY

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin blasphematorius, from blasphemator (from blasphemat-, past participial stem of blasphemare (to blaspheme)) + -ius

EXAMPLE
“… But againe I renounce and abiure now and for euer, both her and all her doctrine; in so much as that it is against the expresse word of God, blasphematory, Apostatique, superstitious, and as farre from the meaning of Christe our true maister, as darkenesse from light, as falshood from trueth, & vice from vertue: most humbly beseeching almighty GOD (thorough the entralls of his mercy, and through the most precious bloude which his sonne Iesus Christ hath shed for me) that he will not lay to my charge the faults of my youth nor iudge me according to the sinnes of my ignorance; but rather pursuing his mercy begunne in me, he will pardon all my offences committed by me either in works, words or thoughts, and in others, through examples and wicked superstitious doctrines: …”

From: The Confession and Publike Recantation of Thirteene Learned Personages,
Translated out of the French and Dutch printed copies, by I.M., 1602

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