sanctify
verb /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪ/
/ˈsæŋktɪfaɪ/
[usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they sanctify | /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪ/ /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪ/ |
| he / she / it sanctifies | /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪz/ /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪz/ |
| past simple sanctified | /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪd/ /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪd/ |
| past participle sanctified | /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪd/ /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪd/ |
| -ing form sanctifying | /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪɪŋ/ /ˈsæŋktɪfaɪɪŋ/ |
- sanctify something to make something holy
- sanctify something to make something seem right or legal; to give official approval to something
- This was a practice sanctified by tradition.
- Psychology had sanctified the opinion that youthful rebellion was a natural stage of adolescence.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French saintifier (influenced later by sanctifier), from ecclesiastical Latin sanctificare, from Latin sanctus ‘holy’.