hallow
A saint; a holy person; an apostleA saint; a holy person; an apostle.
» "You're another" is a hallowed rejoinder to playground taunts.
Meaning
3 sensesA saint; a holy person; an apostle.
All Hallows Eve (or Halloween), the night before All Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints' Day").
Heiliger, Heilige
свято́йsvjatój
A shout, cry; a hulloo.
(in the plural, obsolete)The relics or shrines of saints or non-Christian gods.
To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.
Examples
8 sentences"You're another" is a hallowed rejoinder to playground taunts.
She said, / and to his hallowed seat the aged monarch led.
Hallowed be thy name.
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
deVater unser im Himmel, geheiligt werde dein Name. — Zaghawa
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English halwe (“a saint, holy thing, shrine”), from Old English hālgInherited from Middle English halwe (“a saint, holy thing, shrine”), from Old English hālga (“a holy one, saint”), from Proto-Germanic *hailagô (“holy one”), from *hailagaz (“holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, hale”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Scots halow, hallow (“saint”), German Heiliger (“saint (male)”) / Heilige (“saint (female)”). More at holy, whole.
Inherited from Middle English halowen, from halow (interjection), from Old English ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”, interjection), probably conflated with Old French halloer.
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