sanctify

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

Accentuating the glass wrinkles with gilding serves to sanctify the century-old depot structure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

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

“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

He said he was "glad that Israel will participate again in Eurovision and I hope that the competition will remain one that sanctifies culture, poetry, and friendship between peoples and cross-border cultural understanding".

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025

In that 2003 book, he wrote that the Hebrew term “amidah,” or steadfastness, is used for resistance that preserves and sanctifies life.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2021

That movie sanctifies ignorance, whereas Heller’s, equally gentle, explores not simplemindedness so much as simplicity, a rarer gift.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2019

Her death sanctifies him and, in turn, the viewer who might harbor similar biases.

From Slate ● May 18, 2018

It signifies wealth, evokes the closeness of family, and sanctifies a proper meal.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Here, the real Presley is charismatic as hell, and looks great beaded in sanctified sweat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025

Not Section 60, where the atmosphere is sanctified but not somber—too many kids, Meredith recalled from her visits to her son’s burial site.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024

Yes, it’s time for this series to focus on John Coltrane — perhaps the most sanctified musician in the whole Black American tradition, who other artists sometimes refer to simply as “St. John.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

“Here, communication between man and God takes place,” said Lyngdoh, a descendant of the priestly clan which sanctified the Mawphlang forest.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

She offered him a canteen of unicorn draught - powdered horn mixed with sanctified water from the Little Tiber.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

As I take steps in teaching, sanctifying and leading, I hope to listen more than I speak and to learn from the people entrusted to my care.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Given that prescriptive outlook, the NASA-commissioned Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study is raising a “we’re from the government, and we’re here to help” flag while sanctifying a scientific look at aerial weirdness.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2023

One prayer was read in memory of the “Kedoshim of Pittsburgh, murdered al kiddush Hashem” — holy martyrs, killed while sanctifying God’s name.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

“Anne’s final gift to us was dying in the state of sanctifying grace. We know we will one day be reunited with her in God’s kingdom.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 31, 2022

In this sense the place was like modern purpose-built political capitals, such as Washington, D.C., or Canberra, Australia, with sanctifying civic monuments to compensate for a lack of real history.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro