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dishallow en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + hallow.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.
   • Every devout soul revolts from it as a dishallowing of most sacred things 1882, Alfred Edwards Myers, The Sociable, the Entertainment and the Bazar:
   • Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. c. 1623, Thomas Adams, The Temple (sermon preached at Paul's Cross):
   • And so went back and seeing them yet in sleep Said, "Ye, that so dishallow the holy sleep, Your sleep is death"[…] 1875, Alfred Tennyson, “Pelleas and Ettarre”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VII), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 26:

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