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hallowed
[ hal-ohd; in liturgical use hal-oh-id ]
adjective
- regarded as holy; venerated; sacred:
Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
Synonyms: blessed
hallowed
/ ˈhæləʊd; ˈhæləʊɪd /
adjective
- set apart as sacred
- consecrated or holy
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Derived Forms
- ˈhallowedness, noun
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Other Words From
- hallowed·ly adverb
- hallowed·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The largest mass grave in America existed uneasily as both hallowed ground and deconstruction site.
That we find so hallowed and important, but also so asinine and silly?
The director is following his Wolf of Wall Street success with a documentary about the hallowed New York publication.
And what could be more honorable than rounding up your besties to pay homage to a hallowed pop deity?
Jackson is more interested in the wide-open early days of the movement than in its hallowed end.
Next morning that glorious garrison quitted the shot-torn plain they had hallowed by their deeds.
Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
In raising the lowest classes he will have hallowed a principle unknown before his time.
There were some at all events, to whom Rome, hallowed by a great ideal and noble rule, had become as the city of God.
And as we stand upon this hallowed ground, let us bury all animosities engendered by the war.
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