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Sacrosanct vs Hallowed - What's the difference?

sacrosanct | hallowed |

As adjectives the difference between sacrosanct and hallowed

is that sacrosanct is beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable while hallowed is consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy.

As a verb hallowed is

past tense of hallow.

sacrosanct

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=August 14 , author=Kenneth R. Harney , title=Homeowner mortgage write-off may be in jeopardy , work=Los Angeles Times citation , page= , passage=After decades of being considered politically sacrosanct , why are homeowner mortgage write-offs suddenly on the chopping block?}}
  • sacred.
    • ("sacrosanct on Wikiquote")

    References

    * * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd edition, 1989

    hallowed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XI:
    • When ye praye, saye: Oure father which arte in heven, halowed be thy name.

    Antonyms

    * unhallowed

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hallow)