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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."

adjective

Sanctified adj. Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity; sanctimonious.

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Etymology of 'Sanctified'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sanctified" Quotes from Famous Books

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— The Slim Princess • George Ade

... perfidy of her leaders, has utterly disgraced the tone of lenient council in the cabinets of princes, and disarmed it of its most potent topics. She has sanctified the dark, suspicious maxims of tyrannous distrust, and taught kings to tremble at (what will hereafter be called) the delusive plausibilities of moral politicians. Sovereigns will consider those who advise them to place an unlimited ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

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... himself lover-general to the nuns. Or rather, as in those Spanish cloisters named by Llorente, he would have persuaded them that the priestly office hallowed those to whom the priest made love, that to sin with him, was only to be sanctified. A notion, indeed, ripe through France, and even in Paris, where the mistresses of priests were called "the ...

— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet

... on that account: what does it matter! They will say: "Their 'honesty'—that is their devilry, and nothing else!" What does it matter! And even if they were right—have not all Gods hitherto been such sanctified, re-baptized devils? And after all, what do we know of ourselves? And what the spirit that leads us wants TO BE CALLED? (It is a question of names.) And how many spirits we harbour? Our honesty, we free spirits—let us be careful ...

— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche

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