reverent
adjective
feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful.
unreverent
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a word derived from
reverent.
Example Sentences
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Once, it is true, this possibility had loomed up large before the Marshalls, when a high-protection legislature objected loudly to the professor's unreverent attitude towards the tariff.
From The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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 Thomas Hardy
"The Lords of the Ghostland" is neither reverent nor irreverent, it is unreverent.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Carl Van Vechten
“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 Horace Petherick
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
