meaning of sanctify
1. To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
2. To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
3. To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
4. To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.
5. make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery
">purified"
Related Words
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