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Definition: Unhallowed |
UnhallowedAdjective1. 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: UnhallowedSynonym: unholy (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: holy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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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| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
black dahlia murder unhallowed | 2 |
unhallowed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 profano (abysmal, outsider, profane, temporal, unholy, worldly), não consagrado (unblessed), ímpio (abysmal, godlike, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, impious, unblessed, ungodly, unholy). (various references) грешный (erring, peccable, sinful, wicked), неосвященный. (various references) poročan (graceless, unchaste, vicious, wicked), neposvećen, nepobožan, bezbožan (godless, impious, miscreant, unfaithful, ungodly, unrighteous). (various references) profan (profane, secular), ohelgad, gudlös (godless, graceless, impious, irreligious, ungodly). (various references) 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) không được thánh hoá (unsanctified), không được tôn kính như thần thánh; không được coi l thiêng liêng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Unhallowed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eynhallow, unallowed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "unhallowed" (pronounced 'Un*hal"lowed'): Unfellowed, Willowed. (additional references) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 68 61 6C 6C 6F 77 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .... .- .-.. .-.. --- .--. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n h a l l o w e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0068 0061 006C 006C 006F 0077 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807467787881897170 |
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