unhallowed

[ uhn-hal-ohd ]

adjective

1. not hallowed or consecrated; not regarded as holy or sacred:

   unhallowed ground.

2. impious; unholy.
3. wicked or sinful:

   unhallowed practices.

unhallowed

/ ʌnˈhæləʊd /

adjective

1. not consecrated or holy

   unhallowed ground

2. sinful or profane

Word History and Origins

Origin of unhallowed¹

before 1000; Middle English unhalewed, Old English unhālghod, ungehālghod; un- ¹, hallowed

Example Sentences

Everything inside was urbs, city space consecrated by priests who interpreted the will of the gods; everything outside was ager — unhallowed open territory.

From New York Times

How they would, each and all, abhor me and hunt me from the world, did they know my unhallowed acts and the crimes which had their source in me!

From Literature

“With shut eyes but acute mental vision,” she recalled, “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.”

From New York Times

She said, “There’s rules for those in graveyards, but not for those as was buried in unhallowed ground. Nobody tells me what to do, or where to go.”

From Literature

Or sometimes they’re just the unhallowed grounds where the battered and broken bodies of such unfortunates are dumped without ceremony or prayer or even a moment of solemn reflection. 

From Salon