irreverentlyadv.
/ɪˈrɛvərəntli/ In an irreverent manner; without reverence; disrespectfully.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > [adverb]
unworshiply1303
unreverentlyc1405
irreverentlya1513
profanely1544
unreverendly?1548
irreverendly1655
irreverentially1675
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxxix They .vi. Corpsys..were than put in a Carte & drawen vnto a house of seynt Katheryne & there buryed inreuerently.
1550 J. Veron Godly Saiyngs Ep. Ded. sig. A.v The people whyche loked in it irreuerently were slayne.
1658 Hist. Mem. K. James 25 Surprised that he spake irreverently of King Henry the eighth.
1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 6. ⁋8 Those who speak irreverently of the Person to whom they have sworn Allegiance.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. iv. 71 A land where the haughtiest Don trembled to touch irreverently the meanest friar.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 18 Nor was it a ‘spotty globe’, as Milton has irreverently called the moon.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
<
adv.a1513