sanctify
verb (used with object)
to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
is sanctifying
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present progressiveof sanctify (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Sacramental grace is sanctifying grace—given in the Sacraments—which contains for us a right to actual graces when we need them.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead
The Holy Spirit of God is sanctifying me, and making me holy.
From Sermons for the Times by Charles Kingsley
The principle of a new life which has to be infused into individual souls through the sacraments is sanctifying grace.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
Justly therefore is sanctifying grace, as the principium dignificativum operum, called the “seed of God,”1272 because it contains a celestial reward even as an acorn contains the oak.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
Since then He is sanctifying the church by the washing of water by the Word, and in the future He will present it to Himself, a glorious church.
From The Work Of Christ Past, Present and Future by Arno Clemens Gaebelein
