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Profanity

Profanity

Profanity — cursing and coarse speech — often touches cultivating traits that render you unfeeling toward others, with injury or insult if others use it. The dream may ask where harshness is hardening in how you speak and treat people, and whether the coarsening you sense is wearing away something gentler worth keeping.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for profanity, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream of profanity, denotes that you will cultivate those traits which render you coarse and unfeeling toward your fellow man.

To dream that others use profanity, is a sign that you will be injured in some way, and probably insulted also.