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sanctify

verb as in hold in highest esteem

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The judges on the Fifth Circuit could use a reminder: Federal-court opinions should be written for all American citizens, not just those who sanctify a particular text.

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Accentuating the glass wrinkles with gilding serves to sanctify the century-old depot structure.

“I can’t speak to the law but the fact that Harvard is fighting this to begin with and refusing to accept responsibility obliterates the sanctify and fidelity of the process so people won’t be willing to give,” said DunKley, 66, a special education consultant.

“The story Julian Barry has extracted from Bruce’s life tends to sanctify and, in the end, even to solemnize Bruce rather than to explore his obsessions,” another Times theater critic, Mel Gussow, wrote in a 1972 review, when Sandy Baron replaced Mr. Gorman.

Her connection to her mother remains frayed while she continues to sanctify Minh.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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