Hallow vs Honour - What's the difference?
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(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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* 1902 , Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible , Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:
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Hallow is a related term of honour.
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 a verb hallow
is to make holy, to sanctify or hallow can be to shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.As an adjective hallow
is .As a proper noun honour is
, a less common spelling of honor.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.
Etymology 4
honour
English
Noun
- Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour .
- If she have forgot / Honour and virtue.
- Godlike erect, with native honour clad.