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unhallow en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + hallow.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To rended un-hallowed, i.e. to profane; to desecrate.
    • Nay, the very Ostentation of the Thorn, is a Weakness, and I might have said a Vice too; for the Vanity Unhallows the very Virtue, especially where it is Accompany'd with Detraction. 1692, Sir Roger L'Estrange, “Fable CCCCLXVI: A Fig-Tree and a Thorn”, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists, page 441:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unhallowing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unhallows Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unhallowed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unhallowed Tense=Past lexicographic