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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She went into the other room to lay out the black dress, which death had sanctified some months before, for use on the morrow.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger
It has become a fashion now to invoke youth as well as age to give the blessings once supposed to be alone at the beck and call of those whom Time had sanctified.
From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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
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
Her plighted hand was not transferred to another, when time had sanctified and mellowed regret; but with a cruel and unfeminine precipitancy.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
