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Sanctify   /sˈæŋktəfaɪ/   Listen
Sanctify

verb
(past & past part. sanctified; pres. part. sanctifying)
1.
Render holy by means of religious rites.  Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow.  Antonym: desecrate.
2.
Make pure or free from sin or guilt.  Synonyms: purge, purify.






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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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