hallow
verb (used with object)
to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
have hallowed
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present perfectof hallow.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Arrival at Camp Dodge, Iowa, the following morning and subsequent meeting with the officers and enlisted men of Base Hospital No. 11, made an impression so agreeable time itself seems merely to have hallowed it.
From The Greater Love by George T. McCarthy
Her sorrows and constancy have hallowed the place, and pious people still come to burn incense and lay flowers before the grave.
From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale
Upon a grassy hill-side, and beneath the shade of tall trees, the brave boys sleep in the soil they have hallowed by their valor.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 by Various
The martyrs who have hallowed by their blood the ground of Concord, trusted themselves and occupied the place Divine Providence assigned them.
From Select Speeches of Kossuth by Francis William Newman
In telling it I shall not dwell on the agonies and bloodshed which have hallowed this place for ever; they are done with, and those who suffered have been at rest for nearly sixty years.
From Round the Wonderful World by A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest
