This vocabulary became grievously unfashionable at the Reformation, and was at once swept away by the torrent of irreligion, blasphemy, and indecency, which were at that period deemed necessary to secure conversation against the imputation of disloyalty and fanaticism.

But there is no denying that it was always startlingly and outrageously unfashionable.

But there is no denying that it was always startlingly and outrageously unfashionable.