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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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Etymology of 'Sanctify'

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"Sanctify" Quotes from Famous Books

... it's arranged! His sufferings sanctify him, but mine make me abhorrent and laughable! We must face the immutable. We've destroyed a ...

— The Road to Damascus - A Trilogy • August Strindberg

... can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment, or whether we will renounce that, for the sake of obeying the divine voice within us,—for the sake of being true to all the motives that sanctify our lives. I know this belief is hard; it has slipped away from me again and again; but I have felt that if I let it go forever, I should have no light through the darkness of ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

... fanes God's daughter, sweet Religion, prays, Euterpe's holier strains Her thoughts from earth to heaven raise. The organ notes sublime Put every worldly dream to flight; They sanctify the time, And fill the ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

... seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,—to conceal his name and to sanctify his life; to escape men and ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... over the sea extended in boundaries and numbers, and churchmen were zealous that these infant societies should be blessed by the same services, rites, ecclesiastical ordering and exhortation, as were believed to elevate and sanctify the parent community at home. The education of the people grew to be a formidable problem, the field of angry battles and campaigns that never end. Trade, markets, wages, hours, and all the gaunt and haggard economics ...

— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley

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