OriginSee also: blasphémer
blaspheme + -er.
Variant of blaspheme
transitive verbblasphemed, blaspheming
- to speak irreverently or profanely of or to (God or sacred things)
- to curse or revile
Origin of blasphemeMiddle English blasfemen ; from Old French blasfemer ; from Ecclesiastical Late Latin blasphemare ; from Classical Greek blasphēmein, to speak evil of, in Ecclesiastical Late Greek blaspheme ; from blas- (; from uncertain or unknown; perhaps ) + phēmē, utterance: see fame
to utter blasphemy