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▪ I. unˈholy, a. and n.
[OE. unháliᵹ (f. un- un-1 7 + háliᵹ holy a.), = NFris. unhilleg; older Fl. (Kilian) onheyligh, MDu. onheilich (rare), Du. onheilig; ON. úheilagr (MDa. and Da. uhellig, Sw. ohelig).]
1. Not holy; impious, profane, wicked:
a. Of persons.
c1000Lambeth Ps. xlii. 1 Toscead intingan minne of un⁓haliᵹre þeode. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 3 In Habite of an Hermite vn-holy of werkes. 1526Tindale 2 Tim. iii. 2 The men shalbe..vnthankfull, vnholy, churlisshe. 1607Shakes. Cor. v. vi. 119 Will you be put in minde of his blinde Fortune..by this vnholy Braggart? 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Matt. xxv. 26 To confess God's holy Government, and yet to be unholy, is to be self condemning. 1738Wesley Ps. v. ii, In Souls unholy and unclean Thou never canst delight. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam x. xlvii, Unholy men, Feasting like fiends upon the infidel dead. 1833Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 287 To lodge the whole unholy Brotherhood..in separate cells of the Bastille!
absol.1526Tindale 1 Tim. i. 10 The lawe is..geven..to synners, to vnholy and vnclean. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 106 Hast thee, and..drive out the sinful Pair, From hallowd ground th' unholie. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets vii. 192 The idea of Nemesis quelling the insolent and smiting the unholy.
b. Of acts, things, etc.
1382Wyclif 2 Tim. ii. 16 Schonye thou vnhooli and veyn spechis. 1390Gower Conf. II. 363 (MS. A), If he pourchace By wey of thefte unholy thing. 1526Tindale Heb. x. 29 He..which..counteth the bloud off the testament as an vnholy thynge. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iv. iii. 30 To keepe me from a most vnholy match. 1632Milton L'Allegro 4 In Stygian Cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shreiks, and sights unholy. 1653Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year iv. 50 If things that are lawfull may yet be unholy in this sense; much more are unlawfull things most unholy in all senses. 1717Pope Eloisa to Abelard 224 Far other dreams my erring soul employ, Far other raptures, of un⁓holy joy. 1791Cowper Odyss. xxii. 479 Unholy is the voice Of loud thanksgiving over slaughter'd men. 1842Manning Serm. x. (1848) I. 135 Cultivation of mind, refinement,..are often found in men of the unholiest passions. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate v, There is nothing so awful, so unholy as a mere marriage of expediency.
2. colloq. Awful, dreadful. (Cf. ungodly a. 3.)
1842Dickens Let. 24 Dec. (1974) III. 401, I am reminded of my promise to see to the Pantomime, and am called out at this unholy hour. 1865― Mut. Fr. iv. iii, An unholy glare..shone in the eyes of Mr. Wegg. 1883D. C. Murray Hearts xxxiv. (1885) 288 He had arrived..at a rather unholy sort of hour. 1899E. Phillpotts Human Boy 35 Trelawny had called him an ‘unholy bounder’.
3. n. An unholy person or thing.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. xi, How many other Unholies has your covering Art made holy, besides this Arabian Whinstone! 1837― Fr. Rev. i. i. ii, All Phenomena of the spiritual kind: Dignities, Authorities, Holies, Unholies!
▪ II. unˈholy, v.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To make unholy. Hence unˈholied ppl. a.
a1555Philpot in Coverdale Lett. Mart. (1564) 238 You haue bene sanctifyed and made pure through the truth, take hede you be not vnholied and defyled. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars i. vi, Thou shouldst to them haue layd the Holy Word, And not thy hand to the unholyed Sword. 1649Heylin Relat. & Observ. ii. To Rdr., O wretched unholied men! What are they that thus commit Burglary in the Sanctum Sanctorum of Gods Providence? |