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n. - A disrespectful act; A disrespectful mental attitude.

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  • For it is no light thing to show irreverence to the divine laws - a fact which later events will make clear.
  • There is undeniably a certain irreverence to the column.
  • Heine can never lose the sharpness of his bite, for his irreverence is the eternal irreverence of the soul that neither man nor
  • Kahlan speculated that their irreverence was their way of reminding Richard that he had freed them and that they served only by choice.
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