unhallowed

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
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20
Letters
10

Definition of unhallowed

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not hallowed or blessed; unholy.
    “The murderer was buried in unhallowed ground.”
    “It seemed a desecration and an unhallowed thing to touch that sleeping image of the live man by my side.”
    “Would the lass but consent to go abroad in the unhallowed place at this awful season and hour of the night, she was as firmly handfasted to the Devil as if she had signed a bond with her own blood; […]”
    “In the service of Venus ghastly and unhallowed crimes have been committed, men have braved tempestuous dangers, have renounced magnificence, power, and possessions, confirming the almost thaumaturgic virtue of ‘All for love.’”

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Etymology

From Middle English unhalowyd; equivalent to un- + hallowed.

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