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unˈreverent, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
1. Irreverent:
a. Of actions, conduct, etc.
In frequent use from c 1550 to c 1640.
1388Wyclif Ecclus. xxiii. 17 Thi mouth be not customable to vnreuerent speche. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 622/1 Such euyl fashion of vnreuerent railing vpon great personages. 1583Babington Commandm. (1590) 220 If we be parentes, and greeued with vnreuerent regarde in our children of vs. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 62 The Corinthians were chastised..for vnreuerent receiuing of the Lords supper. a1661Fuller Worthies, Yorks. iii. (1662) 206 Greatly guilty in his ill language, which to any Author was uncivil, to a Bishop unreverent. 1858H. Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. x. (1864) 313 That unreverent feeble laxity, that lets the errors be as good as the truths.
b. Of persons.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 85 b, Se thou be not vnreuerent or stately of behauour to thy company. 1552in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. xvi. 313 A swearer, or an vn⁓reuerent vser of his mouth. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 12 They durst not shewe themselues..so vnreuerent and retchles in hearing, as most men doe. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. i. i. 9 We must be very fearful and not unreverent and rash, in ascribing such a..lusus of notions to God.
transf.c1590Sir T. More ii. iv. 134 Your vnreuerent knees, Make them your feet to kneele to be forgyuen! 1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. i. 123 Wert thou not Brother to great Edwards sonne, This tongue..Should run thy head from thy vnreuerent shoulders.
†2. = unreverend a. 2. Obs.—1
1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent 256 Erasmus opinion and iudgment touching such vnreuerent Reliques. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharon. iii. iv. 356 Their rage Neglected youth slights like unreverent age.
Hence † unˈreverentness, irreverence. Obs.
1579J. Northbrooke Dicing 32 [They] that do vse and handle vpon scaffolds Gods diuine mysteries with such vnreuerentnes. 1636Henshaw Horæ Succ. 294 That un⁓reverentnesse..which they durst not use to this or that Mr Gentleman, they use to God. |