unreverent
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[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.
- 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.