All 7 Uses
hallowed
in
Medea, by Euripides - (translated by: T.A. Buckley)
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- I heard from some one who was saying, not appearing to listen, having approached the places where dice is played, where the elders sit, around the hallowed font of Pirene, that the king of this land, Creon, intends to banish from the Corinthian country these children, together with their mother; whether this report be true, however, I know not; but I wish this may not be the case.†
- The waters of the hallowed streams flow upward to their sources, and justice and every thing is reversed.†
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- By imprecating unhallowed curses on the royal family.†
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.
- I swear by the earth, and the hallowed majesty of the sun, and by all the Gods, to abide by what I hear from thee.†
- Here however I finish this account; but I bewail the deed such as must next be done by me; for I shall slay my children; there is no one who shall rescue them from me; and having heaped in ruins the whole house of Jason, I will go from out this land, flying the murder of my dearest children, and having dared a deed most unhallowed.†
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.
- How then will the city of hallowed rivers,[24] or the country which conducts thee to friends, receive the murderer of her children, the unholy one?†
- But in this land of Sisyphus will I institute in addition to this a solemn festival and sacrifices hereafter to expiate this unhallowed murder.†
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.
Definitions:
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(1)
(hallowed) treated as sacred or greatly respected
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)