hallowing
Example Sentences
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Now “Becoming” is the hallowing of her second coming: as an unprecedented, potentially billion-dollar American brand.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 6, 2018
At St. Louis they drove across the prairie through flowering and fragrant shrubs, past orchards bending and breaking with loads of fruit, where boys rode by on calico ponies "hallowing & laughing."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Central Committee's hallowing of that 1976 ceremony was a subtle way for Teng to humiliate his old enemies.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there was not an attraction lost; rather was every charm ripened and perfected by the hallowing touches of growth and development.
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Sara Beaumont Kennedy
Secondly, this ideal of Imperial Britain will greaten and exalt the action of the soldier, hallowing the death on the battlefield with the attributes at once of the hero and the martyr.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb
