Both Uses of
blasphemy
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand, with startling blasphemies.
p. 66.7 *blasphemies = something said disrespectful of something considered sacred
- Hence the ape-like tricks that he would play me, scrawling in my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books, burning the letters and destroying the portrait of my father; and indeed, had it not been for his fear of death, he would long ago have ruined himself in order to involve me in the ruin.†
p. 106.8blasphemies = things said or done that are disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion
Definition:
something said or done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion