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

In “Poor Robin’s Almanack” for August, 1676, we read: “Hoacky is brought home with hallowing, Boys with plumb-cake the cart following.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

Yet even these, through the love we possess of truthful imitations, and the hallowing powers of genius, excite emotions of pleasure.

From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous