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Sanctify

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To set apart for sacred use; consecrate.

v. To make holy; purify.

v. To give religious sanction to, as with an oath or vow: sanctify a marriage.

v. To give social or moral sanction to.

v. To make productive of holiness or spiritual blessing.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To make holy; to consecrate. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.

v. To free from sin; to purify.

v. To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.

v. To endorse with religious sanction.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.

v. To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.

v. To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.

v. 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 Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make holy or clean, either ceremonially or morally and spiritually; purify or free from sin.

To consecrate; set apart from a common to a sacred use; hallow or render sacred; invest with a sacred or elevated character: said of things or persons.

To make efficient as a means of holiness; render productive of spiritual blessing.

To make free from guilt; give a religious or a legal sanction to.

To keep pure; render inviolable.

To celebrate or confess as holy.

Synonyms To hallow.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make pure or free from sin or guilt

v. render holy by means of religious rites

Word Usage

"The simplest meaning of the word sanctify is to separate or to devote to sacred uses."

Verb Form

sanctified sanctifies sanctifying

Variant

sanctified

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

purify consecrate observe hallow cleanse

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

righteous saintly holy enlighten virtuous