sanctification
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More important, the knee-jerk expectations around and sanctification of such firsts have been dealt a blow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
It is certainly not the sanctification of our political predispositions.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2022
A number of Black female preachers preached the message of revival and sanctification on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2021
Still, it’s fascinating portrait of a very complicated woman, and will be eagerly devoured by anyone interested in Day and her current prospects for sanctification.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2020
No more, and no less, and it had been designed for the same purpose; namely, the sanctification of power.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
Thousands have been my sins, and ten thousand my transgressions; but thy sanctifications have remained with me, and my heart, through thy grace, hath been an unquenched coal upon thy altar.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Its fourteen divisions treat of knowledge,153 love, the festivals, marriage laws, sanctifications, vows, seeds, Temple-service, sacrifices, purifications, damages, purchase and sale, courts, and judges.
From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles
But in the Church there are many sanctifications by sensible signs, such as Holy Water the Consecration of Altars, and such like.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Thousand have been my sins, and ten thousand my transgressions; but thy sanctifications have remained with me, and my heart, through thy grace, hath been an unquenched coal upon thy altar.
From Bacon by John Morley
