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▪ I. unˈreverence, n. [un-1 12, 5 b.] †1. Lack of reverence; irreverence. Obs.
1388Wyclif Ecclus. xxv. 29 The ire and vnreuerence of a womman is grete schenschipe. 1422Yong tr. Secreta Secret. 135 Wreth engendryth vnreuerence, Vnreuerence engendryth enemyte. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) v. xiv. 343 b/2 Defaultes commysed in the unreuerence of god. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 237 That is the moost vnreuerence that may be done to god. 1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 317 The disobedience, vn⁓reuerence, & contempt of children towards their parents. 1649W. Sclater Comm. Malachy (1650) 27 Unreverence more displeaseth, than outward observance can please. 1684Baxter Answ. Theol. Dial. 16 Praying with the Hatt on, is..a sign of unreverence. 2. Used as the negative of reverence n. 6.
1823W. H. Lyttleton in Corr. Lady Lyttleton (1912) 248 The sooner I see your Un-Reverence a-shooting the better I shall be pleased. ▪ II. unˈreverence, v. [un-2 3.] trans. To treat irreverently.
1553Bale Vocacyon 11 This write I, not in vnreuerencinge the sacrament, but [etc.]. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxiv. 222 S. Paul thought their materiall Church..abused and unreverenced, by their lay meetings of Love-feasts therein. |