enhallowed

comparative more enhallowed · superlative most enhallowed

1. poeticSynonym of hallowed.

   Two favored sisters of our faithful train, Far more than all the choicest gifts obtain: The sweetest lyres in all the tuneful earth To music wake at their enhallowed birth.

   1891 January, Lydia M. Millard, “The Tireless Twelve”, in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, volume 92, page 29

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   The Spring with vineleafed arms shall twine, Each hillocked resting-place And Summer's roses low incline With flushed and dewy face; Fair daisies, rayed like stars, shall rise From their enhallowed dust, And look up to protecting skies, With smiles of sunny trust.

   1867 June, “The Confederate Dead”, in The Land We Love, volume 3, page 135

   But now the book of life has reached one page More precious than all most-enhallowed things: What has been written must now be fulfilled: Amen. Amen to what the future brings.

   a. 1960, Boris Pasternak, translated by Henry Kamen, In the Interlude: Poems, 1945-1960, published 1962, page 97

   Synonyms: hallowed