unhallowed

[ uhn-hal-ohd ]

adjective

1. not hallowed or consecrated; not regarded as holy or sacred:

   unhallowed ground.

2. impious; unholy.
3. wicked or sinful:

   unhallowed practices.

unhallowed

/ ʌnˈhæləʊd /

adjective

1. not consecrated or holy

   unhallowed ground

2. sinful or profane

Word History and Origins

Origin of unhallowed¹

before 1000; Middle English unhalewed, Old English unhālghod, ungehālghod; un- ¹, hallowed

Example Sentences

Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.

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Now you have the whole story and can decide for yourselves whether the city visitor had any cause for his unhallowed mirth.

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In the same verse he commends that good man, Monsieur de Laubinire, who gave her body hasty and unhallowed interment.

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But whatever another's consciousness of mental inferiority may be, this unhallowed temper will produce determined resistance.

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This letter shook the unhallowed purpose of his soul, and neither he nor his wife could venture on their excursion up the river.

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