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be hallowed
adjective
Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy.
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A park? That could be hallowed ground for sure!
"Let your love be hallowed," croons a rhapsodic chorus to a married couple, mid-row, in Richard Strauss's bewildering masterpiece, Die Frau ohne Schatten.
They are also angry at the Argentine Navy, which they accuse of deliberately ignoring a law that declares the General Belgrano's resting place, in international waters nearly 14,000 feet deep, to be hallowed ground and a national war memorial.
This raises some serious problems if you believe that "They who are dwellers in this holy place / Must needs themselves be hallowed", and that the culture of the entire national park should revolve around the farmers.
Risking the wrath of golf course traditionalists, including many current golf course architects who consider certain parts of the Old Course to be hallowed ground, the Royal and Ancient decided to lengthen the 17th hole, the Road Hole, by 40 yards, to 495 yards from the 455 yards it measured from the 1900 Open to the 2005 Open.
Ground can be hallowed many different ways.
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"That is hallowed ground".
Actually, it's hallowed.
"New York City is hallowed ground.
Public land is hallowed ground".
The name itself is hallowed in France, Germany and Japan.
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