rehallowing
rehallowing is the present participle and gerund of rehallow.
Meaning of rehallow
Verb
rehallow (third-person singular simple present rehallows, present participle rehallowing, simple past and past participle rehallowed)
- 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
Noun
rehallowing (plural rehallowings)
- An act of reallowing, especially a ceremony of reconsecration.
- It was still Bethel—the house of God, and the revisiting of it meant a rehallowing of his life and the life of all his household.1914, The Christian World Pulpit - Volumes 86-87, page 52
- The question may however be asked, in view of the tremendous importance attached to the Day of Atonement in the Talmud, whether such a celebration could have arisen almost fortuitously out of a rehallowing on some definite occasion.1928, R. H. Kennett, “The Day of Atonement”, in Old Testament Essays, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, page 117
Forms of rehallowing
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Questions about rehallowing
- What does rehallowing mean?
- Rehallowing means an act of reallowing, especially a ceremony of reconsecration.
- What is rehallowing the present participle and gerund of?
- Rehallowing is the present participle and gerund of rehallow.
- What part of speech is rehallowing?
- Rehallowing is a noun.
- What is the plural of rehallowing?
- The plural of rehallowing is rehallowings.
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