(a.) Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity; sanctimonious.
(imp. & p. p.) of Sanctify
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.