sanctification

Vance regularly points to declining birth rates in the U.S. and other developed nations as the impetus for his sanctification of parenthood.

It was a ritual of sanctification, the washing away of sin and declaration of a higher call.

It is certainly not the sanctification of our political predispositions.

Others on the right have used the sanctification of Dr. King as a way to bolster the reputations of the Founders, at a time when attention to their slaveholding was tarnishing their cultural prestige.

More than that, the sanctification of anti-government populism is displacing or dethroning one of the most basic Christian distinctions.