SuaviloquyToday’s word

blaspheming

Blaspheme, v. i. — Webster enters it under “blaspheme”

To utter blasphemy. He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. Mark iii. 29.

1 other Webster entry under this spelling

Blaspheme, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blasphemed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blaspheming.]

1. To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. 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 Dr. W. Beveridge.

2. Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse. You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. Shak. Those who from our labors heap their board, Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for blaspheming; he lists it under oath.

He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.