irreverence's Usage Examples:

No one shows truer courage, not marred by irreverence, in confronting the great problems of human destiny, or greater strength in triumphing over human weakness.

Noah was the first to cultivate the vine and to experience the consequences of over-indulgence in its products, an occasion which called forth the filial respect of two of his sons and the irreverence of the third.

This makes a great gag gift for the guy who appreciates irreverence.

The charges it occasioned of profanity and irreverence were natural, but groundless.

(2) Nor can it be said that the rubric just referred to is in itself a condemnation of reservation: it is rather directed, as its history proves, against the irreverence which prevailed when it was made; and in fact its wording is based upon that of a pre-Reformation order which coexisted with the practice of reservation (Lyndwood, Provinciale, lib.

God-fearing type was very offended by the implicit irreverence, and vandalized the display.

Being open to objection on grounds both of superstition and of irreverence, these customs were gradually put down by the council of Laodicea in A.

Hence we find various expedients adopted in the Targums for avoiding any reference to the Deity, which might be misunderstood by the people, or which involved apparent irreverence.

the irreverence of the Pisans, who declared that if they had the wind they could do without divine help.

There should be a law against treating pylons with such irreverence.

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Synonyms:

attitude, profaneness, mental attitude,

Antonyms:

inoffensive, moral, good, reverence,