unhallow

English

Etymology

un- +‎ hallow

Verb

unhallow (third-person singular simple present unhallows, present participle unhallowing, simple past and past participle unhallowed)

  1. To profane; to desecrate.
    • L'Estrange
      The vanity unhallows the virtue.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unhallow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.