Found 3 items, similar to Sanctifying.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: sanctify mensucikan, menyakralkan, menyucikan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sanctify sanctify v 1: render holy by means of religious rites [syn: consecrate, bless, hallow] [ant: desecrate] 2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; “he left the monastery purified” [syn: purify, purge] [also: sanctified]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sanctifying Sanctify \Sanc"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sanctified; p. pr. & vb. n. Sanctifying.] [F. sanctifier, L. sanctificare; sanctus holy + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Saint, and -fy.] 1. To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow. [1913 Webster] God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. --Gen. ii. 3. [1913 Webster] Moses . . . sanctified Aaron and his garments. --Lev. viii. 30. [1913 Webster] 2. To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify. [1913 Webster] Sanctify them through thy truth. --John xvii. 17. [1913 Webster] 3. To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety. [1913 Webster] A means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as to make me repent of that unjust act. --Eikon Basilike. [1913 Webster] 4. To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to. [1913 Webster] The holy man, amazed at what he saw, Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line. --Pope. [1913 Webster]