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hallowed

[hal-ohd; in liturgical use often hal-oh-id]

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adjective

regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English halwed; Old English (ge)halgod; see hallow¹ + -ed²

Related forms

hal·lowed·ly, adverb

hal·lowed·ness, noun

Synonyms
blessed. See holy.

Antonyms
desecrated.

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Example Sentences

On this hallowed field, they are used to a crackling quarterback controversy every few years.

But, of course, these hallowed professors are protected because they are professors.

Microcreditors, who offer small loans to self-employed poor people, enjoy hallowed reputations.

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On this hallowed field, they are used to a crackling quarterback controversy every few years.

But, of course, these hallowed professors are protected because they are professors.

Microcreditors, who offer small loans to self-employed poor people, enjoy hallowed reputations.

Nikon fans have been waiting years for the hallowed brand to give them a high-end compact camera.

Guitar, drum, flute and singing combined in a hauntingly melodic paean to these hallowed grounds.

Imagine you could tell an automaker to bring back a hallowed example of vehicular history, complete with modern technology.

To some outside of the city, though, it stands as a hallowed battlefield that must be shielded and memorialized.

To range widely and cannily through hundreds of poems was the mark of involvement in something hallowed and distinctive.

Reunification of the peninsula remains a hallowed goal on either side.

They are all hallowed places, somber and impeccably maintained.

But first a word about why said odd-sounding vestment is appearing in these hallowed pages.

For devoted cult movie fans, there is some hallowed ground where remake-minded producers probably shouldn't tread.

The hallowed halls of academia are not problem free.

Whatever this unfairness, a hallowed piece of conventional wisdom seems to have been punctured.

But don't mock the sport, because down here it's hallowed.

No pens, bags or cameras are allowed inside the hallowed reading room.

They have a hallowed sense of their activity, and it gives them a hallowed sense of themselves.

Heated conflicts have broken out in communities where mosques are proposed near far less hallowed locations than ground zero.

Their admission into the hallowed halls of art helped open the door to limited-edition large-scale photography.

But some of these hallowed edifices are crumbling and in desperate need of repair.

Holding an annual children's book fair is a social and commercial ritual as hallowed in.

Not that anyone from the hallowed halls has ever had any apologizing or explaining to.

More ambitiously, he wants to rethink the school's hallowed teaching methods.

As a figure of fun he is a hallowed character in our culture:.

The exhibition definitely does not offer the hallowed silence of a museum.

These hallowed professors would truly be eaten alive in the real world.

Not to get all misty about hallowed visual-effects.

She drank as though the water were from hallowed ground.

But all was not quiet in the hallowed executive suites.

Spring break has long been a hallowed tradition for college students.

The fact that incompetent idiots fill the hallowed halls of academia does not excuse her actions.

It is also a hallowed cruising ground for young drivers.

Then he must struggle to find his way back to the hallowed life.

Disciples were required to make pilgrimages to these hallowed halls for a taste.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.

to honor as holy; consider sacred; venerate: to hallow a battlefield.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English hal(o)wen, Old English hālgian (cognate with German heiligen, Old Norse helga), derivative of hālig holy

Related forms

hal·low·er, noun

interjection, noun, verb (used without object), verb (used with object)

hallo.

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World English Dictionary

hallowed (ˈhæləʊd, (liturgical) ˈhæləʊɪd)

—*adj*
1.	set apart as sacred
2.	consecrated or holy

'hallowedness

—n

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Word Origin & History

hallow

O.E. halgian "to make holy, to honor as holy," related to halig "holy," from P.Gmc. *khailig (cf. O.S. helagon, M.Du. heligen, O.N. helga; see health). Used in Christian translations to render L. sanctificare.

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