A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
To blaspheme is literally ‘to speak ill, to blame’, but blasphemy specifically means to speak ill of God or religion. The word occurs twice as a vocative in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers, expanded on one occasion to ‘foul blasphemer’. The man addressed is mocking Christianity, while the speaker is a devout believer.
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