Why this word is great
HALLOWTIDE — [Noun] The solemn triduum encompassing Hallowe’en, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day, a liturgical season consecrated to the holy and the dead in the dying of the year. From Middle English, from hallow ("a saint, a holy person") + tide ("a season, a period of time"). Unlike "Hallowe’en," which fixes on a single night of folkloric inversion and macabre festivity, or "Allhallowtide," its more emphatic and Latinate synonym, Hallowtide is the encompassing vessel for the entire spiritual passage. It is the carved turnip’s guttering flame on the vigil, the clear, cold chant of the Te Deum on the feast, and the scent of damp earth and chrysanthemums left on a grave for the requiem—a single, solemn acknowledgment that the veil is thinnest not in a moment of fright, but as a slow, collective turning to face the multitude of the dead.