unreverent

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ reverent.

Adjective

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.

   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     See not your bride in these unreverent robes:
     Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.

Synonyms

• irreverent