unhallowed


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un·hal·lowed

 (ŭn-hăl′ōd)
adj.
1. Not hallowed or consecrated.
2.
a. Lacking reverence; impious or irreligious.
b. Not conforming to accepted ethical standards; immoral.
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unhallowed

(ʌnˈhæləʊd)
adj
1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) not consecrated or holy: unhallowed ground.
2. (Theology) sinful or profane
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un•hal•lowed

(ʌnˈhæl oʊd)

adj.
1. not hallowed or consecrated.
2. impious; unholy.
3. wicked or sinful; immoral.
[before 1000]
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Adj.1.unhallowed - not hallowed or consecratedunhallowed - not hallowed or consecrated    
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Translations

unhallowed

[ʌnˈhæləʊd] ADJ (liter) → no consagrado
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unhallowed

adj groundungeweiht
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References in classic literature ?
above all, For the resurrection of deep-buried faith In Truth -- in Virtue -- in Humanity -- Of all who, on Despair's unhallowed bed Lying down to die, have suddenly arisen At thy soft-murmured words, "Let there be light!" At the soft-murmured words that were fulfilled In the seraphic glancing of thine eyes -- Of all who owe thee most -- whose gratitude Nearest resembles worship -- oh, remember The truest -- the most fervently devoted, And think that these weak lines are written by him -- By him who, as he pens them, thrills to think His spirit is communing with an angel's.
The constitution of the summer-house had lasted until the spring of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, when the unhallowed footsteps of innovation passed that way; and the venerable privileges of the Owls were assailed, for the first time, from the world outside.
No, my countrymen, shut your ears against this unhallowed language.
I cannot say just why I conceived that there was something unhallowed in the matter of the book; perhaps this was a tint from the reputation of the rather profligate young man from whom my father had it.
There is a dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright.
Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?
``In lawless hands, indeed, but not in those of love!'' answered the hag; ``love will sooner visit the regions of eternal doom, than those unhallowed vaults.
"For, if we deem it otherwise, do we not hereby say that the Heavenly Father, the creator of all flesh, hath lightly recognised a deed of sin, and made of no account the distinction between unhallowed lust and holy love?
Down with that dark thought which would still try to raise its unhallowed head!
I can see the two of them now as they stood, the white man with his legs far apart, shrieking out curses, and the unhallowed dwarf with his hideous face, and his strong yellow teeth gnashing at us in the light of our lantern.
'With what I shall call your unhallowed opinions, you have been quite shocking this lady: who, as I have already told you, is a born lady, and who, as I have not already told you, has had her own marriage misfortunes to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds - tens of Thousands of Pounds!' (he repeated it with great relish).
A dozen blazing piles now shed their lurid brightness on the place, which resembled some unhallowed and supernatural arena, in which malicious demons had assembled to act their bloody and lawless rites.