different between oath vs blasphemy

English

Etymology

From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English ?þ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?óytos (“oath”). Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ?tor (“use, employ, avail”), Old Irish óeth (“oath”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

oath (plural oaths)

1. A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
   • 2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space (?ISBN):

     But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word. But you took no oath, and have no obligation.

   • 2011, Mark Leyne, "The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel

     There are […] brought all the way from Bougainville to present their birth certificates and testify in this courtroom, under oath, as to their given names.

2. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.

3. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
4. A curse, a curse word.
   • 1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows:

     The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section […]

Synonyms

• pledge, vow, avowal

Derived terms

Related terms

• bloody oath (Australian slang)
• fucking oath (Australian slang)

Translations

Verb

oath (third-person singular simple present oaths, present participle oathing, simple past and past participle oathed)

1. (archaic) To pledge.

Translations

Further reading

• oath on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• HATO, Thao, taho

English

Etymology

From Middle English blasfemye, from Old French blasfemie, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasph?mia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (blasph?mía, “profanity”), from ????????? (blasph?mé?, “to slander”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?blæs.f?.mi/
• Rhymes: -æsf?mi

Noun

blasphemy (countable and uncountable, plural blasphemies)

1. An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act, utterance, view, etc.

   That imam said that drawing the prophet Muhammad is a form of blasphemy.

   • 1920, John Rougier Cohu, The Bible and Modern Thought, page 325:

     Had God cancelled His everlasting Covenant with Israel? The mere thought was blasphemy! But what did God's silence and the present dark cloud mean?

   • 2009, Francis, Business Ethics, Tata McGraw-Hill Education (?ISBN), page 139:

     The fundamentalists in that religion hold that such views are blasphemy and that religion is above criticism.

2. (by extension) An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable; the act of disregarding a convention.
   • 2015, Benjamin V. Root, Interactive Applications Using Matplotlib, Packt Publishing Ltd (?ISBN), page 89:

     I know this is utter blasphemy and completely incomprehensible to developers and power users who love their keyboard shortcuts, but some people just love having buttons on their screens with the exact name of their function written on them.

   • 1999, American Lutherie: The Quarterly Journal of the Guild of American Luthiers

     Some historical information is given on the Panormo family of guitar makers and a whole chapter is called, "Maccaferri's 'Monstrosity'," the name given Julian's Maccaferri guitar due to the blasphemy of its having more than six strings, ...

   • 2004, Touring Club of Italy, The Italian Wine Guide: The Definitive Guide to Touring, Sourcing and Tasting, Touring Editore (?ISBN), page 149:

     The market has responded well to this type of packaging [wine in cardboard containers], even if some consider it near blasphemy, and it has had a role in bringing wine to the younger generation and to social classes intimidated by the high price of many bottled products.

Synonyms

• (irreverent language): cursing, cussing, execration, imprecation, profanity, swearing
• (unholy act): profanation, desecration, sacrilege, violation

Antonyms

• reverence, veneration, worship, adoration

Derived terms

• blasphemous
• blasphemously
• blasphemousness

Related terms

• blaspheme

Translations

Middle English

Noun

blasphemy

1. Alternative form of blasfemye