释义 |
irreverently, adv.|ɪˈrɛvərəntlɪ| [f. irreverent + -ly2.] In an irreverent manner; without reverence; disrespectfully.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 516 They .vi. Corpsys..were than put in a carte & drawen vnto a house of Seynt Katheryne, & there buryed inreuerently. 1550Veron Godly Sayings (1846) 12 The people which loked in it irreverently were slayne. 1658Hist. Mem. K. James 25 Surprised that he spake irreverently of King Henry the eighth. 1716Addison Freeholder No. 6 ⁋8 Those who speak irreverently of the Person to whom they have sworn Allegiance. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. iv. 71 A land where the haughtiest Don trembled to touch irreverently the meanest friar. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, Nor was it a ‘spotty globe’, as Milton has irreverently called the moon. |