Irreverence: alternatives and connections

The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.

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Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious…

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The state or quality of being immoral; vice.

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Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of brib…

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The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity;…

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An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evi…

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The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.

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The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred;…

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The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.

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The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated…

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Not reverent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest.

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Not reverent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest.

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The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.

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Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.

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Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.

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