Definition of "unhallow" []

• Archaic To violate the holiness of; profane or desecrate. (verb-transitive)

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• "Th 'unhallow'd Pentheus only durfl deride The cheated people, and their eyelefs guide."
• "And that the area, excluding all other forms of worship, might be entirely appropriated to Jupiter, and his temple, which was to be erected upon it, he resolved to unhallow several small temples and chapels, which had been vowed first by king Tatius, in the heat of the battle against Romulus, and which he afterwards consecrated and dedicated."
• "It seems this one single use left such an indelible sacredness upon them, that neither the villainy of the persons, nor the impiety of the design, could be a sufficient reason to unhallow and degrade them to the same common use that other vessels may be applied to."