(v. t.) To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
(2) Because the all-hallowed children must learn from their elders to exercise, every adult entering Hampstead Heath must hit the dirt for a set of 25 press-ups.
(3) 5.02pm BST PS: one last line from Dublin, from Henry McDonald: There was some pre-Hallowe'en ghoulish reaction to one aspect of the budget cuts from Fianna Fail, the main opposition party in Ireland .
(4) Thinking it was quite a lark we joined in and the ensuing 10-minute interval on the hallowed turf was a carnival atmosphere with much fun had by all, the highlight being the conga lines dancing to the chant of 'Bulstrode is a wanker'.
(5) Wednesday's decision by the UK supreme court in the case of Yunus Rahmatullah , a man detained by the British in Iraq, might seem to be about the hallowed writ of habeas corpus .
(6) But not everyone saw the Sun King - as the financial press dubbed him - in such hallowed terms, with an army of environmentalists, corporate responsibility experts and even investors turning against him despite wideranging attempts to position BP as a corporate champion of all their causes.
(7) As the floors rise, their balustrades are topped with thin bands of blue, red, yellow and green, reading as a stack of Olympic rings from the upper level – a mischievous retort to the International Olympic Committee's official ban on the use of their hallowed linked rings.
(8) Games were played and nobody ever thought of protecting the hallowed turf.
(9) President Obama broke new ground in his inaugural address when he elevated the 1969 Stonewall gay rights protest to the same hallowed position enjoyed in the American memory by the battle for women's equality and the civil rights struggle.
(10) They say the outpouring of condemnation at the "outrage" of a mosque close to the "hallowed ground" of the World Trade Centre site also goes hand in hand with the increasing acceptability of what they describe as hate speech.
(11) 7.40pm BST The ceremony continues .. Now dozens of large men pretending to be knights are doing fake battle on the hallowed Wembley turf.
(12) Ten hallowed concepts have been critically analyzed in the light of modern technology and contemporary experience.
(13) The BBC1 drama was up against the terrestrial premiere of the concluding part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 on ITV.
(14) It was first held in 1835 to honour the silver wedding anniversary of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese, after whom the hallowed Oktoberfest site, the Theresienwiese, is named.
(15) In All Hallows' Eve, the focus is on forgiveness and the opportunity to correct relational mistakes while one is in a purgatorial state.
(16) It's a sign of the times that the world's most tradition-bound ensemble is now a web trailblazer, opening up the hallowed halls of Berlin's Philharmonie to an infinitely wider audience.
(17) The site has become a breeding ground for a new generation of visually inventive film-makers, for whom the ultimate status symbol is a place among the hallowed “staff picks” on its homepage.
(18) There was a time when the closest Christofer Toumazou thought he would get to the hallowed halls of Imperial College in London was when he was walking down Exhibition road on the way to the science museum, with the workshops of the esteemed institution visible on his right.
(19) In 2011 China delayed the local release dates for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon to give propaganda epic Beginning of the Great Revival a clear run at the box office, while James Bond film Skyfall was similarly pushed back in 2012.
(20) Radcliffe in Harry Porter And The Deathly Hallows: 'There aren't many great parts out there for teenage boys, certainly not as good as Harry Potter.'
Sanctify
Definition:
(v. t.) To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
(v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
(v. t.) To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
(v. t.) To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nelson Mandela, 95, and 89-year-old Robert Mugabe are two giants of southern African politics with little in common: one sanctified, the other demonised.
(2) Jessica Glenza Foreign policy Obama’s foreign policy was sanctified before it had properly begun.
(3) But religiously speaking I don't think that any human being can be sanctified to the extent that they cannot make mistakes."
(4) We sanctify the food, offering it to God, and that spiritualised food is called prasadam , which means the mercy of the Lord.
(5) In A Small Family Business (1987), without ever mentioning Mrs Thatcher but to devastatingly comic effect, Ayckbourn pinned down the essential contradiction in her beliefs: that you cannot simultaneously sanctify traditional family values and individual greed.
(6) You couldn't put a publishing chief executive on the recognition committee that sanctifies the new arrangement, nor on the appointments committee that puts this regulator and his or her board in place.
(7) Yet this debate remains trapped in the past, with the institution still pathetically over-sanctified despite a series of horrific care scandals showing the damage this myopic stance can cause vulnerable patients.
(8) Formal authority was no longer sanctified; the prospect of elite admonishment or discipline no longer commanded so much fear.
(9) Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian Boxing has been sanctified by all the fine minds who have fallen for it through the years.
(10) We made these sacrifices in order for Egypt to become a true democratic civil state in which human dignity is sanctified and human rights respected.
(11) "They cannot say that they want to separate from the Palestinians in order to prevent a binational state, which has a certain logic, and also sanctify a binational, Jewish-Arab state within the permanent borders of the state of Israel."
(12) A s with so much concerning Kafka – his strange life, and stranger fiction – we are almost compelled to begin with the observations of Max Brod, his friend, sanctifier and – some might argue – crypto-amanuensis.
(13) However he was always identified as one of the Conservative party's most prominent rebels on the matter, telling one constituent last March: "I believe that marriage is an institution ordained to sanctify a union between a man and a woman."
(14) Yet if the Commonwealth was sanctified by the coronation, the Mother Country felt less secure.
(15) The ever-blunt publisher Dennis Johnson writes , "it was as if the government not only sanctified the Amazon monopoly, but they made sure it's going to get even more dominant".
(16) The MEP Jussi Halla-aho of the Finns party, for instance, accuses Islam of "sanctifying paedophilia".
(17) A political lie is no longer sanctified by office and received as wisdom from on high.
(18) So the call comes again for real, parliament-sanctified law, not judge-concocted, superinjunction law in these privacy areas – and now Tom McNally, at coalition justice HQ, is promising exactly that.
(19) Men frequently relate to women as either "sanctified" and hence, asexual, or as sexual, and therefore "degraded."
(20) In ancient times this organ was sanctified and, as sacred object, its emblem formed the headdress of male and female deities.