† surreverencen.
Obsolete.
1.
a. = sir-reverence n. 1a, 1b.
ΚΠ
1568 V. Skinner in tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne To Rdr. sig. A.iijv Whose very name should not be spoken of without Surreuerence and great contempt.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. x. 41 All for loue (surreuerence Loue).
1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. Eiijv Surreuerence of their worships, they feed at my stable, table, euery day.
b. By association with sur- prefix, used for: Great reverence.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > great reverence
surreverence1592
1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes C j b Wherein mee thinks (the surreuerence of his works not impaired) he hath verie highly ouershotte himselfe.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Prophetesse i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dddd2/1 Dio... So great a reverence, and so staid a knowledge—Max. Sur-reverence, you would say.
2. = sir-reverence n. 2a, 2b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun]
gorec725
mixeOE
quedeeOE
turdeOE
dungOE
worthinga1225
dirta1300
drega1300
naturea1325
fen1340
ordurec1390
fimea1475
merd1486
stercory1496
avoidc1503
siegec1530
fex1540
excrement1541
hinder-fallings1561
gong1562
foil1565
voiding1577
pilgrim-salvec1580
egestion1583
shita1585
sir-reverence1592
purgament1597
filinga1622
faecesa1625
exclusion1646
faecality1653
tantadlin1654
surreverence1655
draught1659
excrementitiousness1660
jakes1701
old golda1704
dejection1728
dejecture1731
shitea1733
feculence1733
doll1825
crap1846
excreta1857
excretes1883
hockey1886
dejecta1887
job1899
number two1902
mess1903
ming1923
do1930
tomtit1930
pony1931
No. 21937
dog shit1944
Shinola1944
big job1945
biggie1953
doo-doo1954
doings1957
gick1959
pooh1960
pooh-pooh1962
dooky1965
poopy1970
whoopsie1973
pucky1980
jobbie1981
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 75 I might as well haue writte of a dogges turde (in his teeth surreuerence).]
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iii. 73 Flinging Squibs, Crakkers, Dirt, and sometimes stinking Surreverences.
1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 18 Having besmeared his own Cloths and hands with Surreverence.
1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 20 Some Persons abus'd the Statue of the late K. William..leaving a Surreverence upon the Back of his Horse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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