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動詞

dishallow (三人称単数 現在形 dishallows, 現在分詞 dishallowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 dishallowed)

1. (transitive, religion) To render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.
   • c. 1623, Thomas Adams, The Temple (sermon preached at Paul's Cross):

     Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.

   • 1875, Alfred Tennyson, “Pelleas and Ettarre”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VII), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 26:

     And so went back and seeing them yet in sleep
     Said, "Ye, that so dishallow the holy sleep,
     Your sleep is death" […]

   • 1882, Alfred Edwards Myers, The Sociable, the Entertainment and the Bazar:

     Every devout soul revolts from it as a dishallowing of most sacred things

参照

• “dishallow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.