Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Irreverent; disrespectful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Irreverent.
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- adjective Not
reverent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Never heard I from his lips word unreverent toward her; and if other lips spake the same to his knowing, they forthank [regretted] it.
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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‘I don’t want to be unreverent to her ladyship; but
Two on a Tower 2006
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Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.
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Once, it is true, this possibility had loomed up large before the Marshalls, when a high-protection legislature objected loudly to the professor's unreverent attitude towards the tariff.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.
Act II. Scene I. The Tragedy of King Richard the Second 1914
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'I don't want to be unreverent to her ladyship; but I really don't think she is meaning any such waste of a Christian carcase.
Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884
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He raged and threatened on his way to punishment, but it did no good; he was snatched roughly along by the officers, and got an occasional cuff, besides, for his unreverent conduct.
The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages 1882
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As for the interment, there was nothing but even-down wastrie -- wax-candles blowing away in the wind, and flunkies as fou as pipers, and an unreverent mob that scarsely could demean themselves with decency as the body was going by; only the Duke of York, who carrit the head, had on no hat, which I think was the newest identical thing in the affair: but really there was nothing that could be recommended.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809
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Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.
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Lords of the Ghostland "is neither reverent nor irreverent, it is unreverent.
The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922
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