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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

... gifts were often unusually suggestive. In October, 1857, a donation came from a Christian merchant who, having sustained a heavy pecuniary loss, wished to sanctify his loss by a gift to the Lord's work. Shortly after, another offering was handed in by a young man in thankful remembrance that twenty-five years before Mr. Muller had prayed over him, as a child, that God would convert him. Yet another gift, of thirty-five ...

— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson

... larger circle of mankind to which ultimately we belong, since out of it we proceed, and to it we owe all that we are. There are no maxims, there is only an art and a difficult art, to harmonise duties which must often conflict. We have to be true to all the motives that sanctify our lives. To that extent George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver was undoubtedly right. But the renunciation of the Self is not the routine solution of every conflict, any more than is the absolute failure to renounce. In a certain sense the duty towards the self comes before all others, ...

— Little Essays of Love and Virtue • Havelock Ellis

... in this writing that the convert is required to regard the outpouring of the Holy Spirit especially as a work of sanctification. It is the holiness of God manifested in the giving of His Spirit to sanctify those who had become His children, which the four angels celebrate in their ceaseless praise; and it is on account of this holiness that the heaven and earth are said to be full ...

— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin

... others now thy fancies move. I would I knew thy present hopes and fears, All thy companions with their pleasant talk, And the clear aspect which thy dwelling wears: So, though in body absent, I might walk With thee in thought and feeling, till thy mood Did sanctify mine own to ...

— Spare Hours • John Brown

... inauguration of the temple now dedicated to the Sunchild, an individual on the front bench of those set apart for the public suddenly interrupted Professor Hanky's eloquent sermon by declaring himself to be the Sunchild, and saying that he had come down from the sun to sanctify by his presence the glorious fane which the piety of our fellow-citizens and others has ...

— Erewhon Revisited • Samuel Butler

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