hallow
verb (used with object)
to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
had hallowed
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past perfectof hallow.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She never remembered any prayers; but Betty had just knelt there, and the child's prayers had hallowed the place; they seemed to carry the mother's soul with them—just a little way.
From Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands
The end that had hallowed to him the long series of his former offences and former sufferings, now obliterated iniquities just passed, and stripped of all their horrors, atrocities immediately to come.
From Antonina by Wilkie Collins
They held each other in that unity of perfect love which had hallowed so many moments of their lives.
From Thyrza by George Gissing
But from that door the slow procession moved, and those whose hospitable smile and word had hallowed every room returned no more.
From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by George William Curtis
But Isabella was not one to waver in a determination when once formed; how might she break asunder links which the dead had hallowed?
From The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History by Grace Aguilar
