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Encyclopedia Britannica



HOLY

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 621 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HOLY , sacred, devoted or set apart for religious
worship
 _ or observance; a
term
  characteristic of the attributes of perfection and sinlessness of the Persons of the Trinity, as the objects of human
worship
  and reverence, and hence transferred to those human persons who, either by their devotion to a spiritual ascetic
life
  or by their approximation to moral perfection, are considered worthy of reverence. The word in Old
English
  was kdlig, and is common to other Teutonic
languages
 ; cf. Ger. and Dutch heilig, Swed. helig, Dan. hellig. It is derived from hat,
hale
 , whole, and cognate with "
health
 ." The New
English
  Dictionary suggests that the sense-development may be from " whole," i.e. inviolate, from "
health
 ,
well-being," or from " good-omen," " augury." It is impossible to get behind the Christian uses, in which from the earliest times it was employed as the equivalent of the Latin sacer and sanctus.


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