rehallowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

rehallow (三人称単数 現在形 rehallows, 現在分詞 rehallowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 rehallowed)

1. To reconsecrate; to restore to holiness.
   • 1896, S. Pollock Linn, Dictionary of Living Thoughts of Leading Thinkers:

     Can Science rehallow the vast temple she has so ruthlessly, so utterly desecrated?

   • 1946, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology - Volumes 32-35, page 87:

     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).

   • 1969, Peter Taylor Forsyth, ‎Samuel J. Mikolaski, The creative theology of P. T. Forsyth: selections from his works:

     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.

   • 1982, Show-me Libraries - Volume 34, Issues 9-10, page 25:

     On May 7, 1969, the Bishop of Dover came to rehallow the church.

   • 2007, Gordon Bottomley, King Lear's Wife and Other Plays, →ISBN, page 40:

     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.

アナグラム

• hallower