unreverent

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ reverent

Adjective[edit]

unreverent (comparative more unreverent, superlative most unreverent)

  1. Not reverent.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 45–48:
      As priest unreverent,
      Streyght to the sacrament
      He made his hawke to fly,
      With hogeous showte and cry.

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