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
Elizabeth Clayton was given a nervous system of superb quality, which used for the good of those she touched would have hallowed her life; misused, she drifts into unlovable old age, a selfish neurotic.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
I may not see that blessed land, But she roams o'er the sod The Lord's pure eyes have hallowed, Where once His feet have trod.
From Poems by Marietta Holley
Scarce any writer presents to us a sentiment with such a tearful depth of expression; but though it is a tearful depth, those tears were shed long since, and Faith and Love have hallowed them.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
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
