sanctification
Americannoun
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Theology. the act or process of sanctifying.
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Theology. the state or condition of being or having been sanctified.
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"Since I attained the state of Sanctification," Author Smith testifies, "I have never felt the slightest twinge of conscience, never experienced for one second the sense of sin."
From Time Magazine Archive
Containing: "Two Years on the Brink of Jordan,"with Letters on Sanctification and a Storyfor Little Folks; the last namedwritten expressly for TwoLittle Nephews, BYMRS.
From Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward by Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)
As the Hebrew words of the Sanctification of the Sabbath resounded in Jake's ears, in his father's senile treble, he could see his gaunt figure swaying over a pair of Sabbath loaves.
From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Cahan, Abraham
Sanctification is the work which effects this oneness.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert
Sanctification is here a noun, the object of the preposition without.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert
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