All 4 Uses of
hallowed
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- 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?†
p. 55.6unhallowed = not holy or reveredstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unhallowed means not and reverses the meaning of hallowed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- 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.†
p. 90.9
- 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!†
p. 189.5 *
- 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.†
p. 224.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(hallowed) of something declared or believed to be holy
or:
widely respected and revered over time - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)