dishallow
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]dishallow (third-person singular simple present dishallows, present participle dishallowing, simple past and past participle dishallowed)
- (transitive, religion) To render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.
- c. 1623, Thomas Adams, The Temple (sermon preached at Paul's Cross):
- Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.
- 1875, Alfred Tennyson, “Pelleas and Ettarre”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VII), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 26:
- And so went back and seeing them yet in sleep
Said, "Ye, that so dishallow the holy sleep,
Your sleep is death" […]
- 1882, Alfred Edwards Myers, The Sociable, the Entertainment and the Bazar:
- Every devout soul revolts from it as a dishallowing of most sacred things
References
[edit]- “dishallow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.