Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not reverend.
- Disrespectful; irreverent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not reverend.
- adjective obsolete Disrespectful; irreverent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Not
reverend . - adjective obsolete
disrespectful ;irreverent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She had never before encountered a clergyman so contumacious, so indecent, so unreverend — so upsetting.
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute.
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However depressing the thud of earth on the coffin-lid may be, it is music compared to the rattle of gravel and thump of spades which herald a premature and unreverend resurrection, enveloped in clouds of formalin and without benefit of clergy.
The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 1928
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They looked like a dreadful little Guy Fawkes procession, with that humped and unreverend mannikin bobbing and swaying between them.
The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 1928
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute.
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute.
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And for a moment he bowed his unreverend gray head over her shrivelled fingers.
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918
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His voice died into unintelligible mutterings, and his gray unreverend head sank upon the table.
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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The bland, elderish, clerical look faded; the face grew strangely young, the right corner of his mouth twisted upward, and his right eyelid drooped in a prodigious, unreverend wink.
No. 13 Washington Square Leroy Scott 1902
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Suddenly his mood changed; his eye dropped in its unreverend wink.
No. 13 Washington Square Leroy Scott 1902
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