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Adjective

hallowed (comparative more hallowed, superlative most hallowed)

  • Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy.
    • ✤ Synonyms: consecrated, holy, sacred; see also Thesaurus: holy, Thesaurus: sanctified
    • ✤ Antonym: unhallowed
    • ✤ When ye praye/ſaye: Oure father which arte in hevẽ/halowed be thy name.1

Verb

hallowed

  • simple past and past participle of hallow

Etymology

From Middle English halwed (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), from Old English ġehālgod (“hallowed, sacred, sanctified”), past participle of hālgian (“to hallow, make holy”). Equivalent to hallow +‎ -ed. More at hallow.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈhæləʊd/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (US) IPA: /ˈhæloʊd/
  • Rhymes: -æloʊd
  • Homophone: halloed

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Footnotes

  1. 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke xj:[2], folio xciij, verso: ↩

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