Hallow vs Profane - What's the difference?
hallow | profane |
(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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Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
* I. Disraeli
* Gibbon
Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; blasphemous, impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.
* Bible, 1 Timothy 1:9
A person or thing that is profane.
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 244:
(freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.
* 1851 ,
To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
As verbs the difference between hallow and profane
is that hallow is to make holy, to sanctify or hallow can be to shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting while profane is .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.
Etymology 4
profane
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.
- profane authors
- The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine.
- a profane person, word, oath, or tongue
Synonyms
* (obscene) vulgar, inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, lewd * secular * temporal * worldly * unsanctified * unhallowed * unholy * irreligious * irreverent * ungodly * wicked * godless * impiousAntonyms
* holy * sacredNoun
(en noun)- The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.
Verb
(profan)- With one mind, their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man’s knife, as he carved the chief dish before him. I do not suppose that for the world they would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even upon so neutral a topic as the weather.