单词 | unreverently |
释义 | unreverentlyadv. Now rare. Without reverence or due respect; irreverently.Common in the 16th and 17th centuries. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > [adverb] unworshiply1303 unreverentlyc1405 irreverentlya1513 profanely1544 unreverendly?1548 irreverendly1655 irreverentially1675 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §582 Whan they treten vnreuerently the sacrement of the Auter. c1422 T. Hoccleve Tale of Jerelaus (Durh.) l. 218 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 147 He answerde and spak vnreuerently. 1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng f. xxvv His corps was brought vnreuerently from the toure..vnto Paules. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Caecina in Panoplie Epist. 80 That is supposed a loose kinde of writing, to talke of any man vnreuerently. 1638 R. Montagu Articles Diocese of Norwich sig. A4v Hath any of your parish unreverently used your Minister? a1677 T. Manton 190 Serm. on 119th Psalm (1681) cxxxi. 811 Will not God be as severe to me, if I behave my self unreverently? 1727 W. Homes Brief Disc. Doctr. of Sabbath vi. 42 They also deserve reproof who behave themselves lightly and unreverently in the time of God's publick worship, on his holy day. a1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian (2004) I. viii. 66 Charles Stuart, the son of ‘the last man’, as Charles I. was familiarly and unreverently [MS; earlier edd. irreverently] termed by them in their common discourse. 1939 Sewanee Rev. 47 178 Unreverently, irony examines things and ideas, pushing them to the intellectual horizon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.c1405 |
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