hallow
pronunciation
How to pronounce hallow in British English:
UK ['hæləʊ]
How to pronounce hallow in American English:
US ['hæloʊ]
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- Verb:
- render holy by means of religious rites
Word Origin
- hallow
- hallow: [OE] Hallow is essentially the same word as holy. The noun, as in Halloween, the eve of All Hallows, or All Saints, comes from a noun use of Old English Hālig, which as an adjective developed into modern English holy; and the verb was formed in prehistoric Germanic times from the root *khailag-, source also of holy.=> holy
- hallow (v.)
- Old English halgian "to make holy, sanctify; to honor as holy, consecrate, ordain," related to halig "holy," from Proto-Germanic *hailagon (cognates: Old Saxon helagon, Middle Dutch heligen, Old Norse helga), from PIE root *kailo- "whole, uninjured, of good omen" (see health). Used in Christian translations to render Latin sanctificare. Related: Hallowed; hallowing.
- hallow (n.)
- "holy person, saint," Old English haliga, halga, from hallow (v.). Obsolete except in Halloween.
Example
- 1. We cannot dedicate , we cannot consecrate , we cannot hallow this ground .
- 2. But in a larger sense , we cannot dedicate , we cannot consecrate , we cannot hallow this ground .
- 3. Some children make lanterns out of pumpkins at hallow .
- 4. But , in a large sense we cannot dedicate , we cannot consecrate , we cannot hallow this ground .
- 5. But , in a larger sense , we cannot dedicate , we cannot consecrate , we cannot hallow this ground .