(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.
Sanctity
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness.
(n.) Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath.
(n.) A saint or holy being.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spokeswoman said the church had submitted its views on the sanctity of marriage as part of the consultation, it had not anticipated that the government would act as it had.
(2) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
(3) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
(4) Nurses who made a decision to feed the patient stressed mostly the principle of sanctity of life.
(5) His friend Dingle Foot drafted an editorial that David then sharpened up, inserting phrases that summed up his outlook: 'We had not realised that our government was capable of such folly and crookedness...It is no longer possible to bomb countries because you fear that your trading interests will be harmed...this new feeling for the sanctity of human life is the best element in the modern world.'
(6) This protection is not about politics, it's about the deepest of American values – the sanctity of the family and the security of our country.
(7) In the rush to acknowledge the quality of life, the sanctity of life must not be discarded.
(8) The sanctity of human life is guaranteed in Islam .” The council did not specifically condemn the Paris attacks in its statement.
(9) But for this to be possible, interest payments must always be made on time, and the sanctity of debt contracts must always take precedence over electoral promises regarding pensions, wages, and public spending.
(10) Other concerns are that people may opt for death so as not to become a burden on relatives; there is an erosion of the principle of the sanctity of life and the trust between doctor and patient could be damaged.
(11) Better to blockade and pummel from afar, if the sanctity of human life is not a concern.
(12) In The Plague, the stricken protagonists are searching for some way of being human beyond heroism and sanctity.
(13) And sometimes the guns refuse to acknowledge the sanctity of the PoC.
(14) Putin was asked to comment on rising petrol prices, the sanctity of the country's Victory Day holiday, the potential bankruptcy of a meat factory and the identity of his favourite singer.
(15) The sanctity of his life finds nourishment in the respect with which he is treated.
(16) "We've always said ... that we were for health care reform, but there was a principle that meant more to us than anything, and that was the sanctity of life," he told the press conference.
(17) The Vatican talked of "this insult to the nobility of the hearth", and Ed Sullivan on his TV show said, "You can only trust that youngsters will not be persuaded that the sanctity of marriage has been invalidated by the appalling example of Mrs Taylor-Fisher and married man Burton."
(18) This approach defeats the purpose of fighting for the sanctity of human life in current ethical debates about detention centres, because it appropriates the sanctity of the lives of those who are not here to speak for themselves.
(19) Locals cite legends about the area’s sanctity to local Native American tribes.
(20) They call for a mind-shift on the issue of "aid in dying", arguing that the church's insistence on the sanctity of life in all situations has the effect of sanctioning anguish and pain.