单词 | unreverenced |
释义 | unreverencedadj. Not treated with reverence or due respect. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > [adjective] > not reverenced unworshippeda1395 unreverenced1496 worshipless1815 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. iv. sig. aviii/2 Oftentyme that crosse that the preest holdeth..is fulle vnreuerenced & unthende. 1586 G. Whetstone Eng. Myrror ii. i. 111 Religion was mispraised, youth ill instructed, gray heares vnreuerenced. 1632 W. Colman Dance Machabre 17 Contemn'd, neglected, and vnreuerenced, None feares his frownes, nor seeks his grace to win. 1664 J. Howell tr. J. Nadányi Florus Hungaricus iv. 228 A yearly Revenue of 50000 Guilders, with the Principality of Lobkowitz which maintained him among the Bohemians to an old & unreverenced Age. 1771 Considerations Policy, Commerce & Circumstances of Kingdom xxi. 295 That our laws have become too much unreverenced, may be chiefly imputed to their impotence for punishing much guilt in high offenders. 1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. xii. 216 The rude stone that, in some unfenced and unreverenced grave-yard, still marks the lap of earth whereon their heads were laid. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady III. xiii. 196 She saw..the dry, staring fact that she had been a dull un-reverenced tool. 1921 W. Watson Ireland Unfreed 14 All its idols of an age or hour, Unreverenced are. 2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Feb. b09 The public exhibition of plasticized bodies, unclaimed, unreverenced, and unidentified..is unseemly and inappropriate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1496 |
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