to hallow

Examples

• All

• Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name.

  The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

• The community gathered to hallow the battlefield, honoring the memory of those who fought.

• We are, like both the pilgrim and the monk, to hallow the particular and the local.

  Academic text (2008)

• Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

  Jack Be Nimble (2022)

• Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

  Norbit (2007)

• "There is no doubt that the Ox Hill battlefield was hallowed ground and should have never been developed."

  Academic text (2004)

• Gold, even more than petroleum, holds a hallowed place in the human psyche.

  Fiction book (1995)

• In medieval times, elderly Jews traveled to Jerusalem to be buried in its hallowed ground.

  Academic text (1996)

• The more spiritual dimensions of life are mediated through inherited, hallowed patterns and actions.

  Academic text (1995)

• The ceremony aimed to hallow the new church by blessing it with holy water.

Synonyms

B

to bless

vsto hallow

• Formal

624 3.5

To make something holy by a religious act

is more about declaring sacred often by ceremony not simple protective acts

C

to consecrate

vsto hallow

• Formal

33 7.4

To make a place or person holy by a ceremony

is similar but focuses on making holy rather than formal dedication

S

to sanctify

vsto hallow

24 7.4

To make a person or place holy with a religious ceremony

is used to make things holy often without stressing formal dedication

Antonyms

D

to desecrate

44 8.1

To damage or show disrespect to a holy place, for example a grave

P

to profane

4 7.2

To treat a holy place or thing with disrespect

How Sacred

to consecrate

• Formal

33 7.4

to sanctify

24 7.4

to hallow

• Formal

52 8.9

to anoint

23 6.8

to bless

• Formal

624 3.5

Surface Forms

Etymology