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unhallowed

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From Middle English unhalowyd; equivalent to un- + hallowed.

  1. Not hallowed or blessed; unholy.

    The murderer was buried in unhallowed ground.

    Gra[tiano]. O be thou damn’d, inexecrable dog, / And for thy life let iuſtice be accuſde; / Thou almoſt mak’ſt me wauer in my faith, / To hold opinion with Pythagoras, / That ſoules of Animals infuſe themſelues / Into the trunks of men: Thy curriſh ſpirit / Gouern’d a Wolfe, who, hang’d for humane ſlaughter, / Euen from the gallowes did his fell ſoule fleete, / And whilſt thou layeſt in thy vnhallowed dam, / Infuſde it ſelfe in thee: for thy deſires / Are woluiſh, bloody, ſtaru’d and rauenous.