sanctification
Example Sentences
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More important, the knee-jerk expectations around and sanctification of such firsts have been dealt a blow.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2025
It is certainly not the sanctification of our political predispositions.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2022
He assails the sanctification of Malcolm X, saying that his most prominent biographer, the late Columbia University professor Manning Marable, “accords his hero a stature in memory that he lacked in history.”
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021
A number of Black female preachers preached the message of revival and sanctification on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2021
No more, and no less, and it had been designed for the same purpose; namely, the sanctification of power.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
