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 have sanctified in you the memory of your father.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
We will be afraid of neither sorrow nor death in a world where many saintly souls have sanctified them by a divine patience, and amid a Providence wherein no evil thing can dwell.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin
And didst thou, mighty Sage, in truth Show clearly to this royal youth My mother, glorious far and wide, Whom penance-rites have sanctified?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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
It is the gold alone that we now value: the temple that might have sanctified the gold is of no account.
From Some Private Views by James Payn
