Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rehallow

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-hal-low
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To reconsecrate; to restore to holiness.

Example Sentences

"Can Science rehallow the vast temple she has so ruthlessly, so utterly desecrated?"
"But the Egyptian view would almost certainly have been that when it was necessary to hallow or rehallow (see n. 32) a temple, it was essential to reconsecrate the cultus-statues to make quite sure that they were fit for the divinities to become immanent therein (see Blackman, JEA, v, 160, end of last paragraph)."
"He brings it to the glory for which it was destined by God. And for this no saintliest man could be enough. Nothing lower than the holy God could rehallow the guilty human soul."
"On May 7, 1969, the Bishop of Dover came to rehallow the church."
"Mother and Queen, to you this holiest circlet Returns, by you renews its purpose and pride; Though it is sullied with a menial warmth, Your august coldness shall rehallow it, And when the young lewd blood that lent it heat Is also cooler we can well forget."

Etymology

From re- + hallow.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: re

Inflected Forms

rehallows (present, singular) rehallowing (participle, present) rehallowed (participle, past) rehallowed (past)

Questions

What does rehallow mean?: To reconsecrate; to restore to holiness.
Where does rehallow come from?: From re- + hallow.

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