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irreverence|ɪˈrɛvərəns|
[ad. L. irreverēntia, f. irreverent-em irreverent: see -ence. Cf. F. inrévérence 13th c., irrévérence 14th c. (Hatz.–Darm. and Littré).]
1. The fact or quality of being irreverent; absence or violation of reverence; disrespect to a person or thing held sacred or worthy of honour.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 10 If he swere be Cryste wondes or blude..it sounes in irreu[er]ence of Ihesu Cryste. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxvi. 14 Fro alle irreuerence of the eȝen of hir waar [1388 Be thou war of al vnreuerence of hir iȝen]. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋329 Irreuerence is whan men do nat honour there as hem oghte to doon. c1440Jacob's Well 94 Whanne þou iapyst, & scornyst, & dost irreuerence to god & to his sayntes. 1651Davenant Gondibert Pref. 3 If it be not irreverence to record their opinion. 1684Contempl. St. Man ii. x. (1699) 236 The irreverence and great incivility towards God in a Mortal Sin. a1779Warburton Serm. IX. ii. (R.), Turnus..is, on the very first appearance, marked out by his irreverence to the priestess of Juno. 1861Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxi. 176 A feeling of irreverence for things sacred. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. xi. 353 Lowering the moral tone, and exciting irreverence and cunning.
b. With an and pl. An instance of this; an irreverent act or utterance.
a1744Pope (J.), Attributes..which it was an irreverence to omit. 1873Ld. Houghton Monogr. 20 Make yourself quite easy in the possession of my irreverences. 1899A. E. Garvie Ritschlian Theol. vi. ii. 344 The spiritual dissection of some theologians is..an impertinence, one could even say an irreverence.
2. The condition of not being reverenced; state of dishonour.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §151 The irreverence and scorn the Judges were justly in. Mod. To be held in irreverence. |