sanctify
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It is that the law will sanctify it.
From Slate • Jul. 3, 2025
These shrines laden with incense, flowers and other offerings sanctify its gardens, waters and the surrounding landscape, and they highlight the psychic malaise dominating most of its visitors.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025
But just as Zeldin isn’t interested in stripping the dignity from his characters any further than the system has done already, he also refuses to sanctify them.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
Enshrined, meaning to cherish, revere, exalt, consecrate and sanctify, is a word of dignity and respect now side-by-side with same-sex marriages and families, and interracial families.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2022
“Oh,” he said, “I pray God, I pray the Lord...to make me strong...to sanctify me wholly...and keep me saved!”
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing sanctify
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