unhallowed

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English

Etymology

From Middle English unhalowyd; equivalent to un- +‎ hallowed.

Adjective

unhallowed (comparative more unhallowed, superlative most unhallowed)

  1. Not hallowed or blessed; unholy.
    The murderer was buried in unhallowed ground.
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice.  (First Quarto), : J Roberts , published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
      Gra[tiano]. O be thou damn’d, inexecrable dog, / And for thy life let iuſtice be accuſde; / Thou almoſt mak’ſt me wauer in my faith, / To hold opinion with Pythagoras, / That ſoules of Animals infuſe themſelues / Into the trunks of men: Thy curriſh ſpirit / Gouern’d a Wolfe, who, hang’d for humane ſlaughter, / Euen from the gallowes did his fell ſoule fleete, / And whilſt thou layeſt in thy vnhallowed dam, / Infuſde it ſelfe in thee: for thy deſires / Are woluiſh, bloody, ſtaru’d and rauenous.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Dead and Living Meet”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, pages 238–239:
      It seemed a desecration and an unhallowed thing to touch that sleeping image of the live man by my side.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      Would the lass but consent to go abroad in the unhallowed place at this awful season and hour of the night, she was as firmly handfasted to the Devil as if she had signed a bond with her own blood; []

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