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Definition of Irreverently

1. Adverb. Without respect. "The student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence"

2. Adverb. In an irreverent manner. "In the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used"

Definition of Irreverently

1. adv. In an irreverent manner.

Definition of Irreverently

1. Adverb. In an irreverent manner. ¹

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Definition of Irreverently

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Irreverently

irresuscitable irresuscitably irretention irretentive irretraceable irretractile irretrievable irretrievableness irretrievably irreturnable

irrevealable irreverence irreverences irreverend irreverent irreverently (current term) irreversibilities irreversibility irreversible irreversible colloid

irreversible hydrocolloid irreversible process irreversible reaction irreversible shock irreversibleness irreversibly irrevisability irrevisable irrevocabilities irrevocability

Literary usage of Irreverently

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Smoked Glass by Robert Henry Newell (1868)
"CHANTING AN ASTONISHING LAY IN HONOR OF CLEAR WEATHER ONCE MORE; irreverently LIKENING THE STATELY ABODE OF CONGRESS TO A STOMACH; MENTIONING AN ATTEMPTED ..."

2. Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 by William Jackson Hooker (1813)
"the sacred buildings in repair; as well as to impose fines* on those who were found guilty of profaning the temples or speaking irreverently of the gods. ..."

3. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"William Thompson was, as we have already noted, one of three boys at a birth, and these, among people irreverently familiar with the use of Scripture names, ..."

4. Smoked Glass by Robert Henry Newell (1868)
"CHANTING AN ASTONISHING LAY IN HONOR OF CLEAR WEATHER ONCE MORE; irreverently LIKENING THE STATELY ABODE OF CONGRESS TO A STOMACH; MENTIONING AN ATTEMPTED ..."

5. Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 by William Jackson Hooker (1813)
"the sacred buildings in repair; as well as to impose fines* on those who were found guilty of profaning the temples or speaking irreverently of the gods. ..."

6. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"William Thompson was, as we have already noted, one of three boys at a birth, and these, among people irreverently familiar with the use of Scripture names, ..."

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