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irreverence

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ir·rev·er·ence  (-rvr-ns)
n.
1. Lack of reverence or due respect.
2. A disrespectful act or remark.

irreverence
Noun
1. lack of due respect
2. a disrespectful remark or act
irreverent adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.irreverence - an irreverent mental attitude
attitude, mental attitude - a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that work was fun"
profaneness - an attitude of irreverence or contempt for a divinity
reverence - a reverent mental attitude
2.irreverenceirreverence - a disrespectful act
evil, wickedness, immorality, iniquity - morally objectionable behavior
desecration, profanation, sacrilege, blasphemy - blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath"

irreverence
noun disrespect, cheek (informal) impertinence, sauce (informal) mockery, derision, lack of respect, impudence, flippancy, cheekiness (informal)
Translations
Spanish irreverence [ɪˈrɛvərns] nirreverencia

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Poor Marilla was only preserved from complete collapse by remembering that it was not irreverence, but simply spiritual ignorance on the part of Anne that was responsible for this extraordinary petition.
But now the idea came strongly into Hester's mind, that Pearl, with her remarkable precocity and acuteness, might already have approached the age when she could have been made a friend, and intrusted with as much of her mother's sorrows as could be imparted, without irreverence either to the parent or the child.
Some heads were bowed upon folded arms, some lay back with open mouths that issued unconscious music; the flies buzzed and bit, unmolested, the rats swarmed softly out from a hundred holes, and pattered about, and made themselves at home everywhere; and one of them sat up like a squirrel on the king's head and held a bit of cheese in its hands and nibbled it, and dribbled the crumbs in the king's face with naive and impudent irreverence.
 
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