unvenerableadj.
(un- prefix1 1b.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > [adjective] > not worthy of reverence
aweless1440
irreverenta1513
unreverent1576
unreverend1581
unvenerablea1616
irreverend1748
unawful1799
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. iii. 78 For euer Vnvenerable be thy hands, if thou Tak'st vp the Princesse. View more context for this quotation
1616 A. Champney Treat. Vocation Bishops 224 A Bishop howsoeuer vnuenerable he be,..so long as he is a Bishop,..suffereth not the losse of his Pastorall vocation.
1836 J. H. Newman in Lyra Apost. 127 O aged blind Unvenerable!
1867 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 426 So excellent and noble a thing that even error cannot make it unvenerable.
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