irreverence
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In England, Newman and Manning, hearing irreverences in the free speech, started the Oxford movement, which was simply a revitalized literal belief in such credos as the 39 Articles.
From Time Magazine Archive
A ramshackle showcase for the hilarious shenanigans, vaudeville stunts, irreverences, tongue-in-cheekiness and occasional profundities of Playwright Brendan Behan.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was some thunder, a great many jokes, roars of laughter and peppery irreverences about people and politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the irregularities, irreverences, and squalor of the whole I will not speak.
From Chantry House by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
The conversion of sinners; the wants of the Church; those in death agony; spread of Eucharistic devotion; daily Communion; priest adorers; reparation for bad Communions; reparation for impieties and irreverences towards the Eucharist.
From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.
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