unhallowed
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9.9
- adjective
- /ʌnˈhæl.oʊd/
- Literature
:
no consagrado
- For they had seen that some of His disciples ate with common hands, that is, unwashed with hands defiled and unhallowed, because they had not given them a ceremonial washing—
Examples
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She walks tonight with her unhallowed father!
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Why dost not comfort me... and help me out of this unhallowed and bloodstained hole?
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Then they buried her in unhallowed ground, probably outside the churchyard walls.
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Others might suggest that allowing direct government funding of transformative religious experiences would permit "the Civil Magistrate to employ Religion as an engine of Civil policy and thereby engage in an unhallowed perversion of the means of salvation."
Academic text (2010) -
And of the paste a coffin I will rear... and make two pastries of your shameful heads, and bid that strumpet your unhallowed dam, like to the earth, swallow her own increase.
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The ancient cemetery was filled with stories of those buried in unhallowed ground.
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He felt uneasy walking through the unhallowed ruins, as if something dark lingered there.
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Legends say that those who disturb unhallowed places may awaken the spirits that rest beneath.
Synonyms
8
6.1
Not sacred and not fit for worship
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6.3
Not related to religion, like everyday life or art
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9.0
Not made holy or set aside for religious use
1
8.9
Not made holy in a religious ceremony
Not holy or used in religious ceremonies
Without good luck or happiness
A place or object treated with disrespect so it no longer seems sacred
Antonyms
How Sacred
- Formal
8
4.8
- Formal
951
2.7
- Literature
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9.9
143
4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unhallowed is made from un- meaning 'not' and hallow meaning 'to make holy', the same root you see in Halloween. So unhallowed literally means 'not made holy', which is why it describes places or things that are not blessed or sacred.