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149 relations: Ableism, Abuse, All India Bakchod, Alzheimer's disease, Angus Reid (entrepreneur), Anti-terrorism Act, 2015, Antonio Damasio, Anus, Asshole, Auxiliary verb, Baguio, Baker Publishing Group, Baltic Finnic paganism, Ben Jonson, Bible, Biblical apocrypha, Bill Bright, Bitch (slang), Blasphemy, Breach of the peace, Bullying, Catharsis, Chabad.org, Chapters and verses of the Bible, Christendom, Christian views on sin, Christianity, Church Fathers, Contempt of court, Coprolalia, Crime, Criminal Code (Canada), Curse, Cuss Control, Damnation, Defamation, Defecation, Descartes' Error, Desecration, Deuterocanonical books, Dialogues of the Gods, Didache, Dummy pronoun, Dysphemism, Early Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Church, England and Wales, English language, English-language idioms, Epistle of James, ... Expand index (99 more) »
- Blasphemy
- Connotation
- Obscenity
Ableism
Ableism (also known as ablism, disablism (British English), anapirophobia, anapirism, and disability discrimination) is discrimination and social prejudice against people with physical or mental disabilities (see also Sanism).
Abuse
Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a person or thing, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit.
All India Bakchod
All India Bakchod (abbreviated as AIB) was a Mumbai-based comedy company which created the eponymous podcast, YouTube channel and production company.
See Profanity and All India Bakchod
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia.
See Profanity and Alzheimer's disease
Angus Reid (entrepreneur)
Angus Reid (born December 17, 1947) is a Canadian entrepreneur, pollster, and sociologist.
See Profanity and Angus Reid (entrepreneur)
Anti-terrorism Act, 2015
The Anti-terrorism Act, 2015 (Loi antiterroriste (2015)), introduced as, and referred to as Bill C-51, is an act of the Parliament of Canada passed by the Harper government that broadened the authority of Canadian government agencies to share information about individuals easily.
See Profanity and Anti-terrorism Act, 2015
Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio (António Damásio) is a Portuguese neuroscientist.
See Profanity and Antonio Damasio
Anus
In mammals, invertebrates and most fish, the anus (anuses or ani; from Latin, 'ring' or 'circle') is the external body orifice at the exit end of the digestive tract (bowel), i.e. the opposite end from the mouth.
Asshole
The word asshole (in North American English) or arsehole (in all other major varieties of the English language) is a vulgarism used to describe the anus, and often used pejoratively (as a type of synecdoche) to refer to people.
Auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb (abbreviated) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc.
See Profanity and Auxiliary verb
Baguio
Baguio, officially the City of Baguio (Siudad ne Bagiw; Siudad ti Baguio; Lungsod ng Baguio), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines.
Baker Publishing Group
Baker Publishing Group is an Evangelical book publisher that discusses historic Christian happenings for its evangelical readers.
See Profanity and Baker Publishing Group
Baltic Finnic paganism
Baltic Finnic paganism, or Baltic Finnic polytheism was the indigenous religion of the various of the Baltic Finnic peoples, specifically the Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Vepsians and Izhorians, prior to Christianisation.
See Profanity and Baltic Finnic paganism
Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson was an English playwright and poet.
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.
Biblical apocrypha
The biblical apocrypha denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books thought to have been written some time between 200 BC and 100 AD.
See Profanity and Biblical apocrypha
Bill Bright
William R. Bright (October 19, 1921 – July 19, 2003) was an American evangelist.
Bitch (slang)
Bitch is a pejorative slang word for a person, usually a woman.
See Profanity and Bitch (slang)
Blasphemy
Blasphemy refers to an insult that shows contempt, disrespect or lack of reverence concerning a deity, an object considered sacred, or something considered inviolable.
Breach of the peace
Breach of the peace or disturbing the peace, is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries and in a public order sense in the several jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.
See Profanity and Breach of the peace
Bullying
Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. Profanity and Bullying are Harassment and bullying.
Catharsis
Catharsis is from the Ancient Greek word κάθαρσις,, meaning "purification" or "cleansing", commonly used to refer to the purification and purgation of thoughts and emotions by way of expressing them.
Chabad.org
Chabad.org is the flagship website of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
Chapters and verses of the Bible
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible.
See Profanity and Chapters and verses of the Bible
Christendom
Christendom refers to Christian states, Christian-majority countries or countries in which Christianity is dominant or prevails.
Christian views on sin
In Christianity, sin is an immoral act and transgression of divine law.
See Profanity and Christian views on sin
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Church Fathers
The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who established the intellectual and doctrinal foundations of Christianity.
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Contempt of court
Contempt of court, often referred to simply as "contempt", is the crime of being disobedient to or disrespectful toward a court of law and its officers in the form of behavior that opposes or defies the authority, justice, and dignity of the court.
See Profanity and Contempt of court
Coprolalia
Coprolalia is involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks.
Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.
Criminal Code (Canada)
The Criminal Code (Code criminel) is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada.
See Profanity and Criminal Code (Canada)
Curse
A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.
Cuss Control
Cuss Control: The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing is a self-help book on how to curb swearing written by James V. O'Connor in 2000.
See Profanity and Cuss Control
Damnation
Damnation (from Latin damnatio) is the concept of divine punishment and torment in an afterlife for actions that were committed, or in some cases, not committed on Earth.
Defamation
Defamation is a communication that injures a third party's reputation and causes a legally redressable injury.
Defecation
Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus or cloaca.
Descartes' Error
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a 1994 book by neuroscientist António Damásio describing the physiology of rational thought and decision, and how the faculties could have evolved through Darwinian natural selection.
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Desecration
Desecration is the act of depriving something of its sacred character, or the disrespectful, contemptuous, or destructive treatment of that which is held to be sacred or holy by a group or individual.
Deuterocanonical books
The deuterocanonical books, meaning "Of, pertaining to, or constituting a second canon," collectively known as the Deuterocanon (DC), are certain books and passages considered to be canonical books of the Old Testament by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East, but which modern Jews and many Protestants regard as Apocrypha.
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Dialogues of the Gods
Dialogues of the Gods (Θεῶν Διάλογοι) are 25 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in the Attic Greek dialect by the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata.
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Didache
The Didache, also known as The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations (Didachḕ Kyríou dià tō̂n dṓdeka apostólōn toîs éthnesin), is a brief anonymous early Christian treatise (ancient church order) written in Koine Greek, dated by modern scholars to the first or (less commonly) second century AD.
Dummy pronoun
A dummy pronoun, also known as an expletive pronoun, is a deictic pronoun that fulfills a syntactical requirement without providing a contextually explicit meaning of its referent.
See Profanity and Dummy pronoun
Dysphemism
A dysphemism is an expression with connotations that are derogatory either about the subject matter or to the audience. Profanity and dysphemism are connotation.
Early Christianity
Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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England and Wales
England and Wales is one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English-language idioms
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
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Epistle of James
The Epistle of James is a general epistle and one of the 21 epistles (didactic letters) in the New Testament.
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Epistle to the Colossians
The Epistle to the Colossians is the twelfth book of the New Testament.
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Erogenous zone
An erogenous zone (from Greek ἔρως, érōs "love"; and English -genous "producing", from Greek -γενής, -genḗs "born") is an area of the human body that has heightened sensitivity, the stimulation of which may generate a sexual response such as relaxation, sexual fantasies, sexual arousal, and orgasm.
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Euphemism
A euphemism is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant. Profanity and euphemism are censorship and connotation.
Excretion
Excretion is elimination of metabolic waste, which is an essential process in all organisms.
Expletive (linguistics)
An expletive is a word or phrase inserted into a sentence that is not needed to express the basic meaning of the sentence.
See Profanity and Expletive (linguistics)
Expletive attributive
An expletive attributive is an adjective or adverb (or adjectival or adverbial phrase) that does not contribute to the meaning of a sentence, but is used to intensify its emotional force.
See Profanity and Expletive attributive
Faggot
Faggot, often shortened to fag in American usage, is a term, usually considered a slur, used to refer to gay men.
Feces
Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.
Finnish profanity
Profanity in Finnish is used in the form of intensifiers, adjectives, adverbs and particles, and is based on varying taboos, with religious vulgarity being very prominent.
See Profanity and Finnish profanity
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
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First information report
A first information report (FIR) is a document prepared by police organisations in many South and Southeast Asian countries, including Myanmar, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, when they receive information about the commission of a cognisable offence, or in Singapore when the police receive information about any criminal offence.
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Fornication
Fornication is generally consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other.
Francis Grose
Francis Grose (before 11June 173112May 1791) was an English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. Profanity and freedom of speech are censorship.
See Profanity and Freedom of speech
Frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), also called frontotemporal degeneration disease or frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder, encompasses several types of dementia involving the progressive degeneration of the brain's frontal and temporal lobes.
See Profanity and Frontotemporal dementia
Fuck
Fuck is an English-language profanity which often refers to the act of sexual intercourse, but is also commonly used as an intensifier or to convey disdain.
Gaali free India
Gaali Free India is a social campaign against profanity and the use of abusive words.
See Profanity and Gaali free India
Grammatical person
In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).
See Profanity and Grammatical person
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax (Scottish-Gaelic: Halafacs or An Àrd-Bhaile) is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada.
See Profanity and Halifax, Nova Scotia
Haram
Haram (حَرَام) is an Arabic term meaning 'forbidden'.
Harassment
Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of offensive nature. Profanity and Harassment are Harassment and bullying.
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
See Profanity and Homosexuality
Human sexual activity
Human sexual activity, human sexual practice or human sexual behaviour is the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.
See Profanity and Human sexual activity
Hypoalgesic effect of swearing
Research into the hypoalgesic effect of swearing has shown that the use of profanity can help reduce the sensation of pain.
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Ig Nobel Prize
The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research.
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Intensifier
In linguistics, an intensifier (abbreviated) is a lexical category (but not a traditional part of speech) for a modifier that makes no contribution to the propositional meaning of a clause but serves to enhance and give additional emotional context to the lexical item it modifies.
Jesus
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom (Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; 14 September 407 AD) was an important Early Church Father who served as Archbishop of Constantinople.
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Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
KUER-FM
KUER-FM (90.1 MHz) is a public radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Legitimacy (family law)
Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce.
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Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
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Minced oath
A minced oath is a euphemistic expression formed by deliberately misspelling, mispronouncing, or replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or taboo word or phrase to reduce the original term's objectionable characteristics.
Misconduct
Misconduct is wrongful, improper, or unlawful conduct motivated by premeditated or intentional purpose or by obstinate indifference to the consequences of one's acts.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Myrtle Beach is a resort city on the East Coast of the United States in Horry County, South Carolina.
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Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the current Prime Minister of India since 26 May 2014.
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News.ABS-CBN.com
News.ABS-CBN.com is a news website based in Quezon City, Philippines.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
See Profanity and North Carolina
Oath
Traditionally an oath (from Anglo-Saxon āþ, also called plight) is either a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity.
Obscenity
An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. Profanity and obscenity are censorship.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Online Etymology Dictionary
The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.
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Paganism
Paganism (from classical Latin pāgānus "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Judaism.
Paul the Apostle
Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.
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Pejorative
A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something. Profanity and pejorative are connotation and Harassment and bullying.
Penal Code of Brazil
The current Penal Code of Brazil (Código Penal brasileiro) was promulgated in 1940, during the Estado Novo regime, and has been in effect since January 1, 1942.
See Profanity and Penal Code of Brazil
Perkele
Perkele is a Finnish word meaning 'evil spirit' and a popular Finnish profanity, used similarly to the English phrase god damn, although it is considered much more profane.
Philippine News Agency
Philippine News Agency (PNA) is the official news agency of the Philippine government.
See Profanity and Philippine News Agency
Profane (religion)
Profane, or profanity in religious use may refer to a lack of respect for things that are held to be sacred, which implies anything inspiring or deserving of reverence, as well as behaviour showing similar disrespect or causing religious offense.
See Profanity and Profane (religion)
Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
See Profanity and Prostitution
Public Order Act 1986
The Public Order Act 1986 (c. 64) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that creates a number of public order offences.
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Public spaces protection order
Public spaces protection orders (PSPOs) are orders under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 which ban specific acts in a designated geographical area in England and Wales as set out in the act.
See Profanity and Public spaces protection order
Religious offense
Religious offenses are actions that are considered to violate religious sensibilities and arouse negative emotions in people with strong religious beliefs.
See Profanity and Religious offense
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Sacredness
Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence among believers.
Salford City Council
Salford City Council is the local authority for the City of Salford, a metropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester, England.
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Salford Quays
Salford Quays is an area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, near the end of the Manchester Ship Canal.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986
Harassment, alarm or distress is an element of a statutory offence in England and Wales, arising from an expression used in sections 4A and 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, which created the offence.
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Sex organ
A sex organ, also known as a reproductive organ, is a part of an organism that is involved in sexual reproduction.
Sexism
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender.
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse (also coitus or copulation) is a sexual activity involving the insertion and thrusting of the male penis inside the female vagina for sexual pleasure, reproduction, or both.
See Profanity and Sexual intercourse
Shit
Shit is an English-language profanity.
Sin
In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law or a law of the deities.
Social norm
Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.
Spanish profanity
The Spanish language employs a wide range of swear words that vary between Spanish speaking nations and in regions and subcultures of each nation.
See Profanity and Spanish profanity
Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.
See Profanity and Speech synthesis
Standard English
In an English-speaking country, Standard English (SE) is the variety of English that has undergone codification to the point of being socially perceived as the standard language, associated with formal schooling, language assessment, and official print publications, such as public service announcements and newspapers of record, etc.
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Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual.
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Summary offence
A summary offence or petty offence is a violation in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment (required for an indictable offence).
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Swachh Bharat Mission
Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India on 2 October 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management and to create Open Defecation Free (ODF) villages.
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Taboo
A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people.
Talmud
The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.
Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים|ʿĂsereṯ haDəḇārīm|The Ten Words), or the Decalogue (from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek label), are religious and ethical directives, structured as a covenant document, that, according to the Hebrew Bible, are given by Yahweh to Moses.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Stuff of Thought
The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature is a 2007 book by experimental psychologist Steven Pinker.
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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
"Thou shalt not take the name of the thy God in vain" (KJV; also "You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God" (NRSV) and variants) is the second or third (depending on numbering) of God's Ten Commandments to man in Judaism and Christianity. Profanity and Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain are blasphemy.
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Tic disorder
Tic disorders are defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) based on type (motor or phonic) and duration of tics (sudden, rapid, nonrhythmic movements).
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Tikhon of Zadonsk
Tikhon of Zadonsk (secular name Timofey Savelyevich Sokolov, Тимофей Савельевич Соколов; 1724–1783) was an 18th-century Russian Orthodox bishop and spiritual writer whom the Eastern Orthodox Church glorified (canonized) as a saint in 1861.
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Torah
The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Tourette Association of America
The Tourette Association of America (TAA), based in Bayside, New York, United States, is a non-profit voluntary organization and the only US health-related organization serving people with Tourette syndrome.
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X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
Ukko
italic, italic or italic (Finnish for 'male grandparent', 'grandfather', 'old man'), parallel to Uku in Estonian mythology, is the god of the sky, weather, harvest, and thunder across Finnic paganism.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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University of Warsaw
The University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public research university in Warsaw, Poland.
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Viking Press
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House.
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Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward.
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Vulgarism
In the study of language and literary style, a vulgarism is an expression or usage considered non-standard or characteristic of uneducated speech or writing.
Wanker
Wanker is slang for "one who wanks (masturbates)", but is most often used as a general insult.
Westminster John Knox Press
Westminster John Knox Press is an American publisher of Christian books located in Louisville, Kentucky and is part of Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, the publishing arm of the Louisville, Kentucky-based Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Their publishing focus is on books in "theology, biblical studies, preaching, worship, ethics, religion and culture, and other related fields for four main markets: scholars and students in colleges, universities, seminaries, and divinity schools; preachers, educators, and counselors working in churches; members of mainline Protestant congregations; and general readers.
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company is a religious publishing house based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Word taboo
Word taboo, also called taboo language, language taboo or linguistic taboo is a kind of taboo that involves restricting the use of words or other parts of language due to social constraints.
Wright State University
Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio, United States.
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Yeleazar Meletinsky
Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskii (also Meletinsky or Meletinskij; Елеаза́р Моисе́евич Мелети́нский; 22 October 1918, Kharkiv – 17 December 2005, Moscow) was a Russian scholar famous for his seminal studies of folklore, literature, philology and the history and theory of narrative; he was one of the major figures of Russian academia in those fields.
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See also
Blasphemy
- 2014 Larkana temple attack
- 2019 Ghotki riots
- 2020 Bangalore riots
- 2022 Muhammad remarks controversy
- A Brief History of Blasphemy
- A Letter to Lord Ellenborough
- Bible desecration
- Blasphemy
- Blasphemy Day
- Blasphemy law
- Charlie Hebdo issue No. 1011
- Defamation of religion and the United Nations
- Deorum injuriae diis curae
- Elder Pastitsios
- Eternal sin
- Getting Married (collection)
- Holy Rus (organization)
- Innocence of Muslims
- Islam and blasphemy
- Lynching of Deborah Yakubu
- Lynching of Muhammad Waris
- Profanity
- Satanic Verses controversy
- Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case
- The Many Faces of Jesus
- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
- Vestal Masturbation T-shirt
Connotation
- Adolf
- Approbative
- Connotation
- Controversies about the word niggardly
- Dihydrogen monoxide parody
- Dysphemism
- Euphemism
- Führer
- Latin word order
- Loaded language
- Master–slave (technology)
- Pejorative
- Phonaesthetics
- Poglavnik
- Profanity
Obscenity
- Bras d'honneur
- Fig sign
- Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties
- Obscene gesture
- Obscene phone call
- Obscenity
- Obscenity law
- Off-color humor
- Profanity
- Sotades
- The finger
References
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