Hallow
['hæləʊ]
Definition
(v. t.) To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Consecrate, sanctify, dedicate, devote, make holy, invest with solemnity.[2]. Reverence, honor, respect, venerate, pay homage to, render honor to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Consecrate, venerate, reverence, enshrine, sanctify, dedicate
ANT:Desecrate, profane, blaspheme, abominate, execrate
Typist: Vern
Definition
v.t. to make holy: to set apart for religious use: to reverence.—n. a saint.—ns. Hall′owe'en the evening before All-Hallows or All-Saints' Day; Hall′owmas the Feast of All-Saints 1st November.
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Examples
- What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In such a spot death loses half its terrors, and even the inanimate dust appears to partake of the spirit of beauty which hallows this region. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A passing seraph seemed to have rested beside me, leaned towards my heart, and reposed on its throb a softening, cooling, healing, hallowing wing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The pilgrims took what was left of the hallowed ruin, and we pressed on toward the goal of our crusade, renowned Jerusalem. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Whatever we want to do is hallowed and justified, if it can be made to appear as a deduction from that sentence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Hallowed be thy name! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What to him the sanctity of the star which the Son of God has hallowed as his own emblem? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- From this time, an inviolable sphere of peace encompassed the lowly heart of the oppressed one,--an ever-present Saviour hallowed it as a temple. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Reverence for the hallowed Past and its traditions keeps the dismal fashion in force now that the compulsion exists no longer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Hallowed be--thy-- The light is come upon the dark benighted way. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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