单词 | take in vain |
释义 | take in vainidiomatic phrase : to use (a name) profanely or without proper respect Numbers of clergymen have from time to time reproached me for making jokes about religion; and they have almost always invoked the authority of that very sensible commandment which says, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." … I was mercifully preserved by that great God whose name they had blasphemed and taken in vain … |
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