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/sˈæŋktəfaɪ/ Listen

verb

Sanctify v. t. (past & past part. sanctified; pres. part. sanctifying)

To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow. "God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it." "Moses... sanctified Aaron and his garments."

To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify. "Sanctify them through thy truth."

To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety. "A means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as to make me repent of that unjust act."

To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to. "The holy man, amazed at what he saw, Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law." "Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line."

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"Sanctify" Quotes from Famous Books

... with pitying eye behold This martyr generation, Which thou, through trials manifold, Art showing thy salvation Oh let the blood by murder spilt Wash out thy stricken children's guilt And sanctify our nation! ...

— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... crystal waters flow, With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I owe; A sportive kid with budding horns I have, whose crimson blood Anon shall dye and sanctify ...

— A Little Book of Western Verse • Eugene Field

... of Mr. Elliott rose in blessing on the good things now spread for them in such lavish profusion. Only one sentence took hold on, Mr. Ridley's mind. It was this: "Giver of all natural as well as spiritual good things, of the corn and the wine equally with the bread and the water of life, sanctify these bounties that come from thy beneficent hand, and keep us from any inordinate or hurtful ...

— Danger - or Wounded in the House of a Friend • T. S. Arthur

... repetition struck Skippy where he was the weakest, in that wholesouled faith which should sanctify the friendship of a lifetime. The more he considered it the ...

— Skippy Bedelle - His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete - Man of the World • Owen Johnson

... giver of all good Shall, in the heart he purifies, possess The latest love—the earliest—no, not there! I've known the firm and faithful—even from these Life's eddying spring shed the first bloom on earth. I pity them, but ask their pity too. I love the happiness of men, and praise And sanctify ...

— Count Julian • Walter Savage Landor

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