hallow
verb (used with object)
to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
hallowing
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present participleof hallow.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Now “Becoming” is the hallowing of her second coming: as an unprecedented, potentially billion-dollar American brand.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 6, 2018
The Central Committee's hallowing of that 1976 ceremony was a subtle way for Teng to humiliate his old enemies.
From Time Magazine Archive
At St. Louis they drove across the prairie through flowering and fragrant shrubs, past orchards bending and breaking with loads of fruit, where boys rode by on calico ponies "hallowing & laughing."
From Time Magazine Archive
The discoveries of geology are found to fill up the old religious truths with a new life, and to derive from them in turn a hallowing glory.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
He seems to me a kind of hallowing presence in the family, calling out every one's sympathy and kindness, and pathetically reminding us by his loss of the preciousness of our common mercies.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
