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She alluded to him now that he was gone as her ‘poor, dear, irreverend brother.’

The Man of Property 2004

Man, you know, is the only risible creature; but a Curate must begin to know, from the moment he has put on his surplice, that he is to discard at once, and for ever, this human and irreverend instinct.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Our great essayist has exalted her into a Deity, and invested her with a mythological charm, which makes us doubt her existence; so that to laugh at her can be no more irreverend than to sneer at the belief in apparitions, a joke which is very generally enjoyed in these good days of spick-and-span philosophy.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829 Various

He seems to bear it wonderfully lightly; and once or twice, when the subject has been mentioned, indulged in an irreverend laugh.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

She alluded to him now that he was gone as her 'poor, dear, irreverend brother.'

The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property John Galsworthy 1900

She alluded to him now that he was gone as her 'poor, dear, irreverend brother.'

The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

She alluded to him now that he was gone as her 'poor, dear, irreverend brother.'

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

That most irreverend father in God, Friar John, belongs to a higher class in the moral order of being; and he much rather than his fellow-voyager and penitent is properly comparable with

A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

We have had to bear the denunciations of these reverend (irreverend) clergymen, as in

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

Can we ask this most irreverend and unclerical of men to meet a young lady?

The Queen of Hearts Wilkie Collins 1856