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Unreverend

Unreverend \Un*rev"er*end\, a.

  1. Not reverend.

  2. Disrespectful; irreverent. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

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unreverend

a. 1 (context obsolete English) Not reverend. 2 (context obsolete English) disrespectful; irreverent.

Usage examples of "unreverend".

I think there is not one among us all, either so disobedient a subject in regard of our duty, or so unthankful a man in respect of the inestimable benefits which by her or from her we have received, which would not with frank consent, both of voice and heart, most willingly submit himself thereunto, without any unreverend inquiry into the causes thereof.

His voice died into unintelligible mutterings, and his gray unreverend head sank upon the table.

They looked like a dreadful little Guy Fawkes procession, with that humped and unreverend mannikin bobbing and swaying between them.

However depressing the thud of earth on the coffin-lid may be, it is music compared to the rattle of gravel and thump of spades which herald a premature and unreverend resurrection, enveloped in clouds of formalin and without benefit of clergy.