sanctify
verb (used with object)
to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
have sanctified
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present perfectof sanctify.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I suppose that French and English men have sanctified every part of that narrow ribbon by dying there.
From Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean
But so far, in every crisis, messengers from worlds beyond have sanctified the impending woe to the world's welfare.
From The Story of an Ostrich An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme. by Judd Isaacs
I have sanctified his memory by gratitude—this is his canonization.
From A Cardinal Sin by Eugène Sue
Then the holy, apostolic form of Eliot would have sanctified it.
From Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Then the holy apostolic form of Eliot would have sanctified it.
From True Stories of History and Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne
