unreverent

comparative more unreverent · superlative most unreverent

1. Not reverent.

   See not your bride in these unreverent robes: Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.

   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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]

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   As priest unreverent, Streyght to the sacrament He made his hawke to fly, With hogeous showte and cry.

   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

   Synonyms: irreverent