canonize
verb (used with object)
to place in the canon of saints.
canonized
Example Sentences
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Don Orione is another Italian priest, canonized in 2004, who devoted his life to assisting others.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
The show’s new profiles include the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint: Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at age 15 in 2006 and was canonized in September by Pope Leo XIV.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Where might civil rights for Black people be today without the influence of these canonized Black celebrities?
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025
As Britpop began to cohere into a recognizable genre and vision, Suede was canonized as its originators, only to be largely eclipsed as bands like Blur and Oasis came to define the movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
