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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hallowed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ground
▪ Indeed, Darwin, an evolutionist to the end, was laid to rest in the hallowed ground of Westminster Abbey.
▪ Stooping, shamed, he caressed the hallowed ground.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His first album was released on the hallowed Blue Note jazz label.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A mistake in our hallowed tome?
▪ Baxter's hatred for authority did not end at the foot of Ibrox's hallowed stairway.
▪ But why is it in the hallowed halls of a gallery of twentieth century design?
▪ Even now, visitors crossing the hallowed threshold of the Treasury are met by an individual wearing a name badge.
▪ Pop music comes to the hallowed chamber.
▪ The bishops expected the hallowed Authorized Version to maintain its mastery because it was sanctified in everyone's affections and moral sentiments.
▪ The table he sat before was as hallowed as any altar.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hallowed

hallowed \hallowed\ adj. belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power; made holy. Opposite of unholy. [Narrower terms: beatified, blessed ; {blessed ; {consecrated, sacred, sanctified ] Also See: {consecrated, consecrate, sacred.

Syn: holy.

Wiktionary
hallowed

  1. consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy. v

  2. (en-past of: hallow)

WordNet
hallowed

adj. worthy of religious veneration; "the sacred name of Jesus"; "Jerusalem's hallowed soil" [syn: sacred]

Usage examples of "hallowed".

But had the law governing her as Hallowed One of the village granted her the right to claim a mate of her own choice, he was not the one she would have picked.

As the Hallowed One who protected the village, she had walked here many times but never in as great a solitude as that she felt now.

In such primitive shelter all humankind had lived long ago before the days when the great queens and their hallowed women had stolen the magic of seed, clay, and bronze from the southerners, before the Cursed Ones had come to take them as slaves and as sacrifices.

The copper bracelets that marked her status as a Hallowed One chimed softly, the final ring of prayer, calling down the night.

Any village where a Hallowed One lived always had good luck and good harvests.

Because he was a conjuring man, the Hallowed One of his tribe, he put magic into the spear by carving ospreys and long-necked herons along the blade to give the tool a bird's success in hunting fish.

Remarkably, his steady gaze, on her, did not waver, although he must have heard by now about the doom pronounced over her and the other six Hallowed Ones.

She had never known nor wanted any other life than that of Hallowed One.

Has it not been told to you that you are to be the new husband of the Hallowed One of this tribe?

They had split into two groups, one to harry the village and one to capture the Hallowed One, Adica.

How did it come about that they fought with the party who kidnapped you, Hallowed One?

Could Four Houses take one of the bronze spears in exchange for the hospitality they had shown to the Hallowed One this day?

The youth returned in the late afternoon: a large escort would come from Queens' Grave tomorrow to escort the Hallowed One back to her own village.

That's why we have to wait here for the Hallowed One to return from the offering ground.

They wore like an invisible mantle an aura of power, just as Adica did: the Hallowed Ones of their tribes chosen for their ability to walk the path of magic.