Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an irreverent manner; without reverence.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an irreverent manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an irreverent manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. without respect
- adv. in an irreverent manner
Etymologies
- irreverent + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The following explanation of the name irreverently applied to the Bank of England is from H.rry H. Bell, Louisville, Kentucky:”
Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly
“When the horseman reached the gate, he proved to be not Savareen, but mine host Lapierre, mounted on his fast-trotting nag, Count Frontenac -- a name irreverently abbreviated by the sportsmen of the district into "Fronty.”
“Thirdly, in consequence to this, they ought to be informed how great a fault it is to speak evil of the sovereign representative, whether one man or an assembly of men; or to argue and dispute his power, or any way to use his name irreverently, whereby he may be brought into contempt with his people, and their obedience, in which the safety of the Commonwealth consisteth, slackened.”
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
“The surface is effaced by random scrapes and smears my passage has recorded over time; I write my name irreverently in lavish script with flourishes that say I couldn’t give a damn.”
“He studies an irreverent art form irreverently, which is as it should be.”
“A warning to those who use Satan's name irreverently and in blasphemy.”
“Yet Christ and His Apostles did not even suffer these latter to be irreverently treated or suddenly discarded.”
“Judith Weir's Two Human Hymns, with flourishes and syncopated rhythms in the accompanying organ's Baroque registers, gave the chorale irreverently cheeky outings.”
“Her goal was singular, to make his first time what hers should have been . . . a long, sensual anointing of his body, rather than an irreverently quick desecration.”
“And along with cohort, Jezzy Wolfe, he puts on what might be the most irreverently entertaining podcast I've ever listened to.”
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