unhallowed
Americanadjective
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not hallowed or consecrated; not regarded as holy or sacred.
unhallowed ground.
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impious; unholy.
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wicked or sinful.
unhallowed practices.
adjective
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not consecrated or holy
unhallowed ground
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sinful or profane
Etymology
Origin of unhallowed
before 1000; Middle English unhalewed, Old English unhālghod, ungehālghod; un- 1, hallowed
Example Sentences
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Everything inside was urbs, city space consecrated by priests who interpreted the will of the gods; everything outside was ager — unhallowed open territory.
From New York Times
“With shut eyes but acute mental vision,” she recalled, “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.”
From New York Times
She said, “There’s rules for those in graveyards, but not for those as was buried in unhallowed ground. Nobody tells me what to do, or where to go.”
From Literature
Bounds had been set to this unhallowed purgatory.
From Literature
That after all these years of blameless life you should suddenly be seized with a depraved desire for unhallowed amusement like this!
From Project Gutenberg
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