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Profanity and Its Complexities: Exploring Sacredness and Irreverence

This piece delves into the concept of profanity, highlighting its definitions as both a verb and adjective. It examines how profanity relates to treating something sacred with irreverence, and how such behavior can lead to debasement of the holy. The text also discusses terms like "pernicious" and "portentous," noting their significance in literature and life, along with the impact of heresy, esteem, and obscured meanings. Through these definitions, we uncover the multifaceted nature of language and its capacity to evoke deep emotions and societal reflections.

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Profanity and Its Complexities: Exploring Sacredness and Irreverence

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  1. Profane: I.i.84.Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-stained steel to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt

  2. Profane (verb) • 1: to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt • 2: to debase by a wrong, unworthy, or vulgar use • Profane (adj.) • Adjective: 1) serving to debase or defile what is holy :irreverentb:obscene, vulgar • Profaner • profanely, • profaneness

  3. pernicious: • From I.i. 86. • “What ho, You men, you beasts, /That quench the fire of your pernicious rage. . . “ • highly injurious or destructive :deadly. Pernicious anemia

  4. Augmenting: • From I.i. 135 • “Many a morning hath he there been see, With tears augmentingthe fresh morning’s dew” • to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense. • per·ni·cious·lyadverb • per·ni·cious·nessnoun

  5. Portent(ous): • From I.i. 144. • “Black and portentous must this humor prove\Unless good counsel may the cause remove.” • Adj: of, relating to, or constituting a foreshadow • Portent: (noun) something that foreshadows a coming event :omen , sign.. • por·ten·tous·ly adverb • por·ten·tous·ness noun

  6. Posterity • From I.i.228 “She hath, and in that sparing [makes] huge waste; For beauty, starved with her severity, Cuts beauty off from all posterity” • all future generations • Noun • When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.Thomas Paine

  7. Languish: • I.ii. 50 • “One desperate grief cures with another’s languish.” • to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated • to be or live in a state of depression or decreasing vitality.

  8. Heretics: • I.ii. 98. • “Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars. • One fairer than my love? 1: a dissenter from established religious dogma

  9. Esteem: • I.iii.76 “Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, Are already mothers.” • worth , value

  10. Obscured: I.iii.91 “And what obscured in this fair volume lies Find written in the margent of his eyes. to make dark, dim, or indistinct;

  11. Boisterous: • I.iv.26. “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like a thorn.” • a:coarse b:durable , strong c:massive; noisily turbulent :rowdy;

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