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rehallow

rehallow verb: to reconsecrate; to restore to holiness.

Verb

rehallow (third-person singular simple present rehallows, present participle rehallowing, simple past and past participle rehallowed)

  1. To reconsecrate; to restore to holiness.
    • Can Science rehallow the vast temple she has so ruthlessly, so utterly desecrated?1896, S. Pollock Linn, Dictionary of Living Thoughts of Leading Thinkers
    • 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...1946, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology - Volumes 32-35, page 87

rehallow meaning in Bengali

rehallow in Bengali

পুনরায় পবিত্র করা, পবিত্রতা ফিরিয়ে দেওয়া

Examples of rehallow in a sentence

  • Nothing lower than the holy God could rehallow the guilty human soul.1969, Peter Taylor Forsyth, Samuel J. Mikolaski, The creative theology of P. T. Forsyth: selections from his works:
  • On May 7, 1969, the Bishop of Dover came to rehallow the church.1982, Show-me Libraries - Volume 34, Issues 9-10, page 25:

Forms of rehallow

third-person singular presentrehallows
present participlerehallowing
past participlerehallowed
pastrehallowed

Origin of rehallow

From re- + hallow.

Questions about rehallow

What does rehallow mean?
Rehallow means to reconsecrate; to restore to holiness.
What is rehallow in Bengali?
Rehallow in Bengali is পুনরায় পবিত্র করা, পবিত্রতা ফিরিয়ে দেওয়া. See Rehallow meaning in Bengali.
How do you use rehallow in a sentence?
Nothing lower than the holy God could rehallow the guilty human soul.
What part of speech is rehallow?
Rehallow is a verb.
What is the past tense of rehallow?
The past tense of rehallow is rehallowed.

Words near rehallow in the dictionary

  1. rehairs
  2. Rehak
  3. Rehaks
  4. Rehal
  5. Rehalan
  6. rehallow
  7. rehallowed
  8. rehallowing
  9. rehallowings
  10. rehallows
  11. rehalogenize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rehallow (page history and authors); rehallow (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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