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irreverend, a.|ɪˈrɛvərənd|
[ir-2.]
1. Not reverend; unworthy of veneration.
[1494: see irreverent 1.] 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. xli. 158 Her matted, griesly hair, made irreverend by her wickedness. 1879Swinburne Stud. Shaks. ii. (1880) 110 That most irreverend father in God, Friar John, belongs to a higher class in the moral order of being.
¶2. Formerly often misused for, or confused with, irreverent.[Arising from the earlier use of irreverent in both senses.] 1576Grindal Let. to Queen 20 Dec. in Strype Life (1710) ii. App. 80 If eny Man use immodest Speech, or irreverend Gesture or Behaviour. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlvii. §4 That irreverend confidence wherewith true humilitie can neuer stand. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. an. 1556 (R.) A certain learned person..impugned some part of what he had spoken, urging that he had used irreverend speech. 1796W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. II. 465 To preserve their monumental altars within precincts where they will be guarded from irreverend mutilation. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers I. ii. 79 Handled with a rough, irreverend touch.
Hence iˈrreverendly adv. (in quots. misused for irreverently).
1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint. Pref. (1858) 7 So irreverendly bold, as to dash Scripture with their impious conceits. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. App. 58 He irreverendly aims at wit with the face of an Irish inquisitor. |