different between blasphemer vs blaspheme

English

Etymology

From Middle English blasfemour, from Old French blasfemeor; equivalent to blaspheme +? -er.

Noun

blasphemer (plural blasphemers)

1. One who commits blasphemy; a person who mocks or derides a deity or religion, or claims to be God.

Translations

Latin

Verb

blasph?mer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of blasph?m?

Middle French

Etymology

Latin blasph?m?.

Verb

blasphemer

1. to blaspheme

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: blasphémer

English

Etymology

From Middle English blasfemen, blasphemen, from Old French blasfemer, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasph?m?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (blasph?mé?). Doublet of blame.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?blæs?fi?m/, /?bl??s?fi?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?blæs.fim/

Verb

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.
   • 1980, The Blues Brothers:

     Mrs. Murphy: Don't you blaspheme in here!

2. (transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
   • a. 1708, William Beveridge, A Form of Sound Words to be used by Ministers

     How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name?

3. (transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.

Related terms

• blasphemer
• blasphemingly
• blasphemous
• blasphemously
• blasphemy

Translations

Noun

blaspheme (plural blasphemes)

1. Obsolete spelling of blasphemy

Latin

Adjective

blasph?me

1. vocative masculine singular of blasph?mus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Verb

blaspheme

1. Alternative form of blasfemen

Etymology 2

Noun

blaspheme

1. Alternative form of blasfeme

Adjective

blaspheme

1. Alternative form of blasfeme

Etymology 3

Noun

blaspheme

1. Alternative form of blasfemye