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unˈreverend, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
†1. Irreverent. Obs. (Common c 1580–1660.)
1562in Strype Ann. Ref. xxviii. (1709) 295 All unreverend speaking of God's holy predestination. 1584R. Dudley Lett. 161 Inveying against their souerain with..vnreuerend tearmes, and insolent controlmentes. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. vi. 14 Fie, fie, vnreuerend tongue, to call her bad. 1613Dekker Four Birdes Noah's Arke Wks. (Grosart) V. 20 Cleanse my heart..from all foule, loose and vnreuerend languages. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharon. iv. i. 257 That it might unreverend gazers tell It once was sacred. 1820Lamb Elia i. Oxford in Vac., They rather hold such curiosities to be impertinent—unreverend.
2. Unworthy of reverence.
[1828–32Webster.] 1874J. Thomson City Dreadf. Nt. xviii. iv, Long grey unreverend locks befouled with mire. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lxii, The presence of this un⁓reverend father..affected Mirah with..shame and grief.
Hence † unˈreverendly adv., irreverently. Obs.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 352 Thou hast vnreuerendly spoken. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp Nat. Philos. ii. iv. 118 He..was wont..(unreverendly enough) to compare our Physitians to Bishops. 1673S'too him Bayes 24 Whose person you shall not find me speak so unreverendly of. |