Crossword-Solution: IRREVERENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Irreverence | n. | The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “IRREVERENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Parodist's quality | 1 answer |
| Spirit of iconoclasm | 1 answer |
| profanation | 18 answers |
| cussing | 18 answers |
| Sacrilege | 18 answers |
| swearing | 22 answers |
| vulgarism | 22 answers |
| profanity | 25 answers |
| blasphemy | 26 answers |
| cursing | 28 answers |
| expletive | 34 answers |
| Impiety | 34 answers |
| Heresy | 40 answers |
| Detestation | 43 answers |
| Obscenity | 46 answers |
| Disrespect | 48 answers |
| HOLY horror | 49 answers |
| desecration | 57 answers |
| Indignity | 65 answers |
| Cheek | 66 answers |
| discourtesy | 73 answers |
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Sentences with IRREVERENCE (5)
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.
XII IRREVERENCE One of the most trying defects which I find in these—these—what shall I call them? for I will not apply injurious epithets to them, the way they do to us, such violations of courtesy being repugnant to my nature and my dignity.
Sometimes we played “medicine dance.” This, to us, was almost what “playing church” is among white children, but our people seemed to think it an act of irreverence to imitate these dances, therefore performances of this kind were always enjoyed in secret.
Though deeply religious in his nature and aspirations, he was denounced in 1865 to the Prussian Government as guilty of irreverence; but, to the credit of his noble and true colleagues who trod in the more orthodox paths--men like Tholuck and Julius Muller--the theological faculty of the University of Halle protested against this persecuting effort, and it was brought to naught.
When one could hang a servant on one's own private gallows, or chop off his hand for irreverence or disobedience--obedience and reverence were a rule.
Quotes with IRREVERENCE (3)
Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Everyone knows the experience of encountering other persons only under the aspect of how they intersect with our projects, and of noticing them only insofar as we have to notice them in order to interact with them as we pursue our goals. But from time to time we realize more keenly that the other with whom we are dealing is a person, and then we feel the irreverence and the arrogance of our attitude. We become aware of a certain violence with which we have been treating other…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1980–2001).