unreverent
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unreverent (comparative more unreverent, superlative most unreverent)
- 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.