- made holy or sacred
- honored as holy; venerated
Origin of hallowed
past participle of hallow
verb
Hallowed is defined as to declare sacred or holy, or to honor as holy.
When you attribute religious meaning to the name of God, this is an example of a time when you hallowed the name or made it holy.
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hallowed
adjective
- Sanctified; consecrated: a hallowed cemetery.
- Highly venerated; sacrosanct: our hallowed war heroes.
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Adjective
(comparative more hallowed, superlative most hallowed)
- Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy.
Antonyms
- (sanctified, blessed): unhallowed
Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of hallow
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Sentence Examples
- The church was a hallowed place because of the sacred artifacts.
- There the army of devotees tends more especially to the Ganges - the hallowed river of Hindu belief.
- The river was recognized as hallowed by the native community.
- The hallowed temple is respected by all the people in the religion.
- The hallowed family tradition has been passed down for decades.
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Words near hallowed in the dictionary
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