Sanctify

Quick meaning: Sanctify is a verb meaning (transitive) To make holy; to consecrate; to set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.

Meaning

(transitive) To make holy; to consecrate; to set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To free from sin; to purify.
2. (transitive) To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.
3. (transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.

Example Sentences

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.

Word Forms

• sanctifies
• sanctifying
• sanctified

Synonyms for sanctify

Depending on context, synonyms include consecrate, hallow, cleanse, purify, bless.

Antonyms for sanctify

Common opposites include profane, desecrate, deconsecrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bless, consecrate, hallow, purify, justify, sanctificate.

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