sanctify
verb (used with object)
to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
had sanctified
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past perfectof sanctify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The presence of his wife had sanctified every surrounding scene, and, each day, as it gradually softened the acuteness of his suffering, assisted the tender enchantment that bound him to home.
From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Then every spirit, sage, and bard, Condemned to earth by sentence hard, Pressed eagerly around the tide That Śiva's touch had sanctified.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Would the sweet, warm wind of tender memory fresh from the happy day their love had sanctified, breathe no melting magic on her frozen nature?
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
Then there came a priest from the South, near the border of Andalusia, who overnight had sanctified the ring.
From Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
Five centuries of heroic strife against oppression had sanctified the name of Liberty.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
