dishallow
verbEtymology From dis- + hallow.
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Lifestyle, Religion To 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):
- 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:
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- Every devout soul revolts from it as a dishallowing of most sacred things1882, Alfred Edwards Myers, The Sociable, the Entertainment and the Bazar: