UNHALLOWED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unhallowed mean? 

• UNHALLOWED (adjective)
  The adjective UNHALLOWED has 1 sense:

1. not hallowed or consecrated

  Familiarity information: UNHALLOWED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNHALLOWED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not hallowed or consecrated

Synonyms:

unhallowed; unholy

Similar:

profane; unconsecrated; unsanctified (not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled)

Attribute:

holiness; sanctitude; sanctity (the quality of being holy)

 Context examples 

How they would, each and all, abhor me and hunt me from the world, did they know my unhallowed acts and the crimes which had their source in me!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mix not God's name with these unhallowed threats!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus, whereas he can do as he will within his limit, when he have his earth-home, his coffin-home, his hell-home, the place unhallowed, as we saw when he went to the grave of the suicide at Whitby; still at other time he can only change when the time come.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Again I felt that horrid sense of the reality of things, in which any effort of imagination seemed out of place; and I realised distinctly the perils of the law which we were incurring in our unhallowed work.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)