vbl. sb. [f. UNHALLOW v.] The action of making unhallowed.

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c. 1554.  Bradford, Hurt of Hearing Mass (1580), C v. The prophanation and vnhallowyng, bothe of bodie and soule.

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1571.  Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxxiv. 1. Beholding the horrible unhalowing of the Temple.

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1645.  Ussher, Body Div. (1647), 242. The unhallowing or prophaneing of the Sabbath.

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a. 1859.  De Quincey, in Hogg, De Q. & Friends (1895), 89. A sort of desecration and unhallowing analogous to the profanation of a temple.

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