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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 621 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOLY , sacred, devoted or set apart for religious worship_ or observance; a See also:

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

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