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unsanctified

[uhn-sangk-tuh-fahyd] / ˌʌnˈsæŋk təˌfaɪd /








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Before it could be consecrated, a partition had to be built in the entryway, creating a small, unsanctified vestibule and bringing down the overall dimensions to an acceptable size.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019

It was an instance of the laying of unsanctified hands on the horns of the altar, such as had not been equalled in audacity, since the days of Anne Hutchinson, by any but Quakers.

From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Charles Wentworth Upham

Never were these words, never was the fact that unsanctified afflictions have the same hardening effect on men which fire, that melts gold, has on clay, more strikingly illustrated than on this occasion.

From The Angels' Song by Thomas Guthrie

Satan is a very powerful figure,—not the vulgar devil, but the determined will, the unsanctified power.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various

The seigniory of untrammeled instincts; the fief of unsanctified dreams; the palfrey that carries us toward nebulous spiritual hills.

From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard




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