Word Meanings - UNREVERENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. Wyclif.

Related words: (words related to UNREVERENCE)

• ABSENCE
  1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
• REVERENCER
  One who regards with reverence. "Reverencers of crowned heads." Swift.
• WYCLIFITE; WYCLIFFITE
  A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.
• IRREVERENCE
  The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.
• REVERENCE
  1. Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. Chaucer. Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. Coleridge.
• UNREVERENCE
  Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. Wyclif.
• DISREVERENCE
  To treat irreverently or with disrespect. Sir T. More.
• SELF-REVERENCE
  A reverent respect for one's self. Tennyson.