Dictionary Entry
sanctify
sanctify is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
- 2transitive verb
To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
- 3transitive verb
To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
- 4transitive verb
To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.
- 5verb
make pure or free from sin or guilt
"he left the monastery purified"
- 6verb
render holy by means of religious rites
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