We generally take "holy" as meaning "completely good" . . . But this
common usage of the term is inaccurate. It is true that all this moral
significance is contained in the word "holy", but it includes in
addition - as even we cannot but feel - a clear overplus of meaning, and
this it is now our task to isolate. . . 'holy', or at least the
equivalent words in Latin and Greek, in Semitic and other ancient
languages, denoted first and foremost only this overplus: if the ethical
element was present at all, at any rate it was not original and never
constituted the whole meaning of the word.1958TITHRO
