Both Uses of
hallowed
in
Dracula
- Again I felt that horrid sense of the reality of things, in which any effort of imagination seemed out of place, and I realized distinctly the perils of the law which we were incurring in our unhallowed work.†
p. 213.4 *unhallowed = 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, 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.†
p. 255.9
Definition:
treated as sacred or greatly respected