canonize
verb (used with object)
to place in the canon of saints.
canonized
Example Sentences
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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
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
Catholic school nuns practically canonized John F. Kennedy, never ceasing to remind us students that he was the first Catholic President.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024
The first four caliphs committed to writing a canonized Quran and helped interpret and articulate the religious law.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
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
