Hallow vs Deify - What's the difference?
hallow | deify |
(archaic, or, dialectal) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
A shout, cry; a hulloo.
* 1777 , Robin Hood's Chase , reprinted in
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To make a god of (something or someone).
To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.
In lang=en terms the difference between hallow and deify
is that hallow is to make holy, to sanctify while deify is to treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.As verbs the difference between hallow and deify
is that hallow is to make holy, to sanctify or hallow can be to shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting while deify is to make a god of (something or someone).As a noun hallow
is (archaic|or|dialectal) a saint; a holy person; an apostle or hallow can be a shout, cry; a hulloo.As an adjective hallow
is .hallow
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia hallow) From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- All Hallows''' Eve'' (or Halloween), the night before ''All '''Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints Day").
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l).Etymology 3
From (etyl) halowen, from , probably conflated with (etyl) halloer.Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- Then away they went from merry Sherwood / And into Yorkshire he did hie / And the King did follow, with a hoop and a hallow / But could not come him nigh.
- I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel's bows.