dishallow

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verb

To render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.

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Meanings

verbdishallow (third-person singular simple present dishallows, present participle dishallowing, simple past and past participle dishallowed)

present singular third person dishallows · participle present dishallowing · participle past dishallowed · past dishallowed

  1. transitivelifestyleTo render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.

    Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.

    c. 1623, Thomas Adams, The Temple (sermon preached at Paul's Cross)
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    And so went back and seeing them yet in sleep Said, "Ye, that so dishallow the holy sleep, Your sleep is death"[…]

    1875, Alfred Tennyson, “Pelleas and Ettarre”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VII), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 26

    Every devout soul revolts from it as a dishallowing of most sacred things

    1882, Alfred Edwards Myers, The Sociable, the Entertainment and the Bazar

Origin

From dis- + hallow.

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