Unhallow (Verb)
Meaning
Remove the consecration from a person or an object.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The priest's actions were seen to unhallow the sacred relics that had been entrusted to him.
- Her involvement in the scandal was enough to unhallow her in the eyes of the public.
- The once revered leader's corruption began to unhallow the very principles of the revolution.
- The removal of the cross was intended to unhallow the site where the ritual was performed.
- The people's loss of faith in the system served to unhallow the establishment in their eyes.