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Etymology

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From en- +‎ hallowed.

Noun

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enhallowed (comparative more enhallowed, superlative most enhallowed)

  1. (poetic) Synonym of hallowed
    • 1867 June, “The Confederate Dead”, in The Land We Love, volume 3, page 135:
      The Spring with vineleafed arms shall twine,
      Each hillocked resting-place
      And Summer's roses low incline
      With flushed and dewy face;
      Fair daisies, rayed like stars, shall rise
      From their enhallowed dust,
      And look up to protecting skies,
      With smiles of sunny trust.
    • 1891 January, Lydia M. Millard, “The Tireless Twelve”, in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, volume 92, page 29:
      Two favored sisters of our faithful train,
      Far more than all the choicest gifts obtain:
      The sweetest lyres in all the tuneful earth
      To music wake at their enhallowed birth.
    • a. 1960, Boris Pasternak, translated by Henry Kamen, In the Interlude: Poems, 1945-1960, published 1962, page 97:
      But now the book of life has reached one page
      More precious than all most-enhallowed things:
      What has been written must now be fulfilled:
      Amen. Amen to what the future brings.
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