sanctify
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It is that the law will sanctify it.
From Slate • Jul. 3, 2025
These shrines laden with incense, flowers and other offerings sanctify its gardens, waters and the surrounding landscape, and they highlight the psychic malaise dominating most of its visitors.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025
Enshrined, meaning to cherish, revere, exalt, consecrate and sanctify, is a word of dignity and respect now side-by-side with same-sex marriages and families, and interracial families.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2022
The Envelope is here to change all that: As we do every year, we’ve winkled out the rare gems that belong in categories no awards committee would ever sanctify.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2022
No one directly proclaimed that schools were designed to sanctify failure and destruction.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Vocabulary lists containing sanctify
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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