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And in 1642 “John Bryson’s wife, in Scougall, is to be warned next day to the session for flyting with her husband, and abusing him by her unreverent speeches.”

From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various

I have nothing of ourselves to tell you, and if I had, I could not be so unreverent as to trouble you with it.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

“Surely, Mrs Dorothy, ’twould be quite unreverent to think so.”

From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace

I don’t want to be unreverent to her ladyship; but I really don’t think she is meaning any such waste of a Christian carcase. 

From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas

"The Lords of the Ghostland" is neither reverent nor irreverent, it is unreverent.

From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl