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holy English

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What does holy mean?
Definitions in simple English

holy

If something is holy, it is very religious or good and important in a religion. They believe the birthplace of their is holy land.

holy

belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power (= holy place) a sacred place of pilgrimage

Synonyms holy synonyms

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Holy English » English

housel Lord's Supper Eucharist Communtion

Topics holy topics

What do people use holy to talk about?

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Simple sentences

Holy crap, who's the asshole who dares call me in the middle of the night?!
Holy cow!
This is holy ground.
The Holy Roman Empire came to an end in the year 1806.
The holy book of Muslims is the Qur'an.
The Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist in 1806.
Christopher Columbus once found the Holy Grail but threw it out because he didn't like the color.
Holy bag of straw!
Holy smokes.
Nothing is holy.
The Holy Inquisition started with Pope Lucius III.
So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not Three Gods, but One God.
Holy Moses!
Holy guacamole!

Movie subtitles

You're taking the Holy Word and adding fiction (The truth about God!
You're making things up again, Arnold. (Holy prophet man!
Did you know that the clitoris is a holy sacred thing?
That's the Holy Grail of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Hiei is holy ground and must not permit itself to become a haven for those involved with outlawry.
Released from the evil spell, Sandro unites with Inga in holy matrimony.
At the Sabbath witches and sorcerers first desecrate the Church's holy cross.
In the same way, we get a daughter of the holy baptism Blanda's name and that.
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN premiered on December 17th, 1926.
She seems. almost holy!
Above it all looms a Holy Mountain. a symbol of the greatest values than humanity can embrace. fidelity. truth.
We are about to unite this loving and devoted couple in the holy bonds ofwedlock.
Holy Moses, it's Alvin McClure.
Holy.
Abd el-Kader has started a holy war against us.
My father, Si Kaddour, sent me to tell you Emir Abd el-Kader, the leader of the holy war, is ready to broker peace.
His mother, the holy and revered Zohra, is seriously ill.
We value freedom! Only a holy war can bring freedom and independence.
My men are in favor of a holy war.
I do. - You are now joined in holy matrimony.
You cured my holy mother.
Won't his liberation fuel Algeria's holy war?
We are about to unite this loving and devoted couple in the holy bonds of wedlock.
Holy jumping swordfish.
But don't you understand that it's a holy lamp?
Holy mackerel!
JERRY: According to God's holy ordinance.
According to God's holy ordinance. According to God's holy ordinance.
Gentlemen, I give you the holy state of matrimony, modern style.
We are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this company, to join together this man, this woman in holy matrimony.
Holy cat. Eddie.
Oh! Holy smoke!
Holy smoke!
Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. in the sight of God and in the face of this company. to join together this man and woman in holy matrimony.
Holy mackerel, I've never known it to fail.
The holy henchman!

News and current affairs

There are fervent arguments heard on both sides concerning blame for a lack of peace in the Holy Land.
A New Holy Alliance?
Here is where the Holy Alliance concept of moral restraint comes in.
Having begun, ever so carefully, to politically open his country, the King knows that he needs regional peace and a lowering of Islamic holy rage.
Islamists view their acts of random mass murder not as a personal publicity stunt, but as a tactic in a holy war against the decadent, sinful West.
After all, this is an organization committed to the destruction of Israel - its charter calls for a holy war against all Jews - and the establishment of an Islamic state in all of historical Palestine.
The urban middle classes, impatient with the slow processes of democracy, latch on to holy men and their magic potions.
Nutrigenomics is not the Holy Grail of nutrition, but neither is it irrelevant to all but the worried-but-wealthy few that will be able to afford the new food products when they arrive.
To certain evangelical Christians, it is the holy site of the Second Coming of the Messiah.
In between are states like Germany, whose constitutional preamble makes an explicit reference to God, or Ireland, where the preamble refers to the Holy Trinity.
The Calvinists of Geneva, or Cromwell's Puritans, were - like the mullahs of Teheran - biblio-centric, with a Holy Book as their model for the ideal society.
But once you hold real elections, different modes of interpretation of the Holy Book become possible and legitimate.
Meanwhile, Iran's citizens - including clergy in the holy city of Qom, near the Fordow nuclear facility - are deeply concerned about the consequences of an attack.
In recent weeks, Ahmadinejad's aides have denied another rumor that he ordered his cabinet to write a pact of loyalty with the 12th Imam and throw it down a well near the holy city of Qom, where some believe the Imam is hiding.
Should the best answer to the return of Russia's imperial ambitions be a modern version of a Holy Alliance of stability designed to contain the world's new maverick?
It was the latest resort to terrible violence in order to resolve how to share in peace what Christians still like to call the Holy Land.
Some system of joint or international sovereignty over Jerusalem's holy places and the division of the city so that it can become the capital of two states.
Tourism, particularly by Indian pilgrims to the major Hindu holy sites in Tibet, Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar, is thriving.
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia reduced the number of independent units in the Holy Roman Empire from 3,000-4,000 to 300-400.
He spoke of the Holy Land as the source of Christianity and the home of sacred shrines of Islam, but intentionally ignored the Biblical roots of Judaism and Jerusalem as the home of Hebrew kings and prophets.
Tourism, particularly by Indian pilgrims to a major Hindu holy site in Tibet, is thriving.
A US invasion of Iraq, with large numbers of civilian casualties, would deepen the sense of victimization and defeat felt by Arab youths and make them inclined to join Al Qaeda-style holy war cells.
Many incorrect stories were circulated. False rumours that the Holy Koran had been burned in demonstrations, false information on the status of Islam in Denmark, incorrect translations of what our Queen had said, etc.
These zealots are not fundamentalists in any common sense of the term, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: there is no Hindu pope, no Hindu Sabbath, no single Hindu holy book, and no such thing as a Hindu heresy.

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