disreverence

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Etymology edit

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disreverence (third-person singular simple present disreverences, present participle disreverencing, simple past and past participle disreverenced)

(obsolete, transitive) To treat irreverently or with disrespect.
- 1650, William Sclater, A Brief and Plain Commentary, with Notes […] :
  disreverence the Name God

References edit

“disreverence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.