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English
Etymology
From un- + reverent.
Adjective
unreverent (comparative more unreverent, superlative most unreverent)
- Not reverent.
c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 45–48:As priest unreverent,
Streyght to the sacrament
He made his hawke to fly,
With hogeous showte and cry.
c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :See not your bride in these unreverent robes:
Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.
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