What is the meaning of irreverently?

adverb

  • Without respect.
    • usage: "the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence"
  • In an irreverent manner.
    • usage: "in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used"
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