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Unhallowed

Definition: Unhallowed

Unhallowed

Adjective

1. Not hallowed or consecrated.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unhallowed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Note: Unhallowed \Un*hal"lowed\, adjective. [Prefix un- not hallowed.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Unhallowed

Synonym: unholy (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: holy (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unhallowed

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Irreligion

Adjective: irreligious; indevout; undevout; devoutless, godless, graceless; ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed; atheistic, without God.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Unhallowed

DomainTitle

Books

  • A true information of the unhallowed ofspring progress and impoisoned fruits of our Scottish Calvinian gospel, 1628 (reference)

  • An Unhallowed Grave: A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel (reference)

  • No Unhallowed Hand (Work and the Glory, 7) (reference)

  • Unhallowed Ground (reference)

  • Unhallowed Murder (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Unhallowed

AuthorQuotation

William Shakespeare

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Unhallowed

"Unhallowed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unhallowed" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unhallowed

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

black dahlia murder unhallowed

2

unhallowed

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unhallowed

Language Translations for "unhallowed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, vile, villainous), i mëkatshëm (erring, unholy). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

грешен (fallacious, iniquitous, peccant, sinful, unrighteous, wicked, wrong), нечестив (impious, nefarious, profane, unclean, unholy), неосветен (unholy, unlit). (various references)

   

Czech

  

neposvìcený. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نامقدس کردن (Unhallow), کفرامیز (Profane, Unhallow, Unholy). (various references)

   

German

  

unheilig (unholy, unsaintly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανερόσ, ανίεροσ (sacrilegious, unholy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

profán (profane). (various references)

   

Manx

  

neucasherick (unconsecrated), meenoo (impious, unholy), gyn casherickey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allowedunhay

   

Portuguese

  

profano (abysmal, outsider, profane, temporal, unholy, worldly), não consagrado (unblessed), ímpio (abysmal, godlike, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, impious, unblessed, ungodly, unholy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

грешный (erring, peccable, sinful, wicked), неосвященный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poročan (graceless, unchaste, vicious, wicked), neposvećen, nepobožan, bezbožan (godless, impious, miscreant, unfaithful, ungodly, unrighteous). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

profan (profane, secular), ohelgad, gudlös (godless, graceless, impious, irreligious, ungodly). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

takdis edilmemiş (unblessed), kutsanmamış (unbaptized, unconsecrated), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), şeytani (demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không được thánh hoá (unsanctified), không được tôn kính như thần thánh; không được coi l thiêng liêng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unhallowed

Misspellings

"Unhallowed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eynhallow, unallowed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unhallowed"

Words rhyming with "unhallowed" (pronounced 'Un*hal"lowed'): Unfellowed, Willowed. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Unhallowed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-l-n-o-u-w"

-2 letters: downhaul, hallowed, hulloaed, unhallow, unwalled.

-3 letters: allowed, halloed, hollaed, holland, hulloed, lowland.

-4 letters: allude, aludel, duello, enhalo, hallow, haloed, handle, hauled, holden, hondle, howled, hulled, hulloa, loaned, louden, nodule, nullah, nulled, unawed, unlade, unlead, unload, unwell, walled, wandle, wauled, whaled.

-5 letters: adown, ahold, ahull, aldol, allod, allow, alone, aloud, anode, anole, awned, dawen, dewan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unhallowed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 68 61 6C 6C 6F 77 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ....    .-    .-..    .-..    ---    .--.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#104 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#111 &#119 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0068 0061 006C 006C 006F 0077 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55807467787881897170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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