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Sanctifier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.

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.

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.

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