Irreverence meaning

ĭ-rĕv'ər-əns
The definition of irreverence is disrepect.

An example of irreverence is bashing someone's religious beliefs.

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Lack of reverence or due respect.
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A disrespectful act or remark.
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Lack of reverence; disrespect.
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An act or statement showing this.
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The condition of not being treated with reverence.
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The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.
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Origin of irreverence

  • From Old French irreverence, from Latin irreverentia
    From Wiktionary

Irreverence Sentence Examples

  • Noah was the first to cultivate the vine and to experience the consequences of over-indulgence in its products, an occasion which called forth the filial respect of two of his sons and the irreverence of the third.

  • The charges it occasioned of profanity and irreverence were natural, but groundless.

  • This makes a great gag gift for the guy who appreciates irreverence.

  • (2) Nor can it be said that the rubric just referred to is in itself a condemnation of reservation: it is rather directed, as its history proves, against the irreverence which prevailed when it was made; and in fact its wording is based upon that of a pre-Reformation order which coexisted with the practice of reservation (Lyndwood, Provinciale, lib.

  • It is said that while the archbishop was blessing the fleet the silver cross of his archiepiscopal staff fell off, but that the omen was disregarded by .the irreverence of the Pisans, who declared that if they had the wind they could do without divine help. They advanced in line abreast to meet the first line of the Genoese, fighting according to the medieval custom to ram and board.

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