单词 | irreverence |
释义 | irreverencen. 1. a. The fact or quality of being irreverent; absence or violation of reverence; disrespect to a person or thing held sacred or worthy of honour. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > [noun] irreverencec1340 unreverencea1402 unreverency1555 unreverentness?1577 awelessness1583 impiety1594 irreverentialisma1859 c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 10 If he swere be Cryste wondes or blude..it sounes in irreu [er] ence of Ihesu Cryste. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxvi. 14 Fro alle irreuerence of the eȝen of hir waar [a1425 L.V. Be thou war of al vnreuerence of hir iȝen]. c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋329 Irreuerence is whan men do nat honour there as hem oghte to doon. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 94 Whanne þou iapyst, & scornyst, & dost irreuerence to god & to his sayntes. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert Pref. 3 If it be not irreverence to record their opinion. a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) ii. x. 291 The irreverence and great incivility towards God in a Mortal Sin. a1779 W. Warburton Serm. IX. ii. (R.) Turnus..is, on the very first appearance, marked out by his irreverence to the priestess of Juno. 1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxi. 176 A feeling of irreverence for things sacred. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. xi. 353 Lowering the moral tone, and exciting irreverence and cunning. b. With an and plural. An instance of this; an irreverent act or utterance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > [noun] > an act of irreverence1715 1715 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad I. Pref. sig. F2v Attributes that it was..an irreverence to omit. 1873 Ld. Houghton Monogr. 20 Make yourself quite easy in the possession of my irreverences. 1899 A. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > [noun] > condition of not being reverenced irreverence1702 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 55 The irreverence, and scorn the Judges were justly in. 1900 N.E.D. at Irreverence Mod. To be held in irreverence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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