unhallow

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ hallow.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To rended un-hallowed, i.e. to profane; to desecrate.
   • 1692, Sir Roger L'Estrange, “Fable CCCCLXVI: A Fig-Tree and a Thorn”, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists, page 441:

     Nay, the very Ostentation of the Thorn, is a Weakness, and I might have said a Vice too; for the Vanity Unhallows the very Virtue, especially where it is Accompany'd with Detraction.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:desecrate

References

• “unhallow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.