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Sanctified

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Adjective

1. consecrated, sacred, sanctified

made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use

Example Sentences:
'a consecrated church'
'the sacred mosque'
'sacred elephants'
'sacred bread and wine'
'sanctified wine'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sanctified

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adjective
1. 
consecrated or made holy
2.  a less common word for sanctimonious

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Sanctified

see synonyms of sanctified
adjective
1. 
a. 
dedicated; consecrated
b. 
made holy
2. 
affecting sanctity; sanctimonious

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sanctified

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tr.v. sanc·ti·fied, sanc·ti·fy·ing, sanc·ti·fies
1. To set apart for sacred use; consecrate: The preacher sanctified the ground as a cemetery.
2. To make holy; purify: They felt the spirit had descended and sanctified their hearts. They sanctified the body with holy oil.
3. To give religious sanction to, as with an oath or vow: The wedding ceremony sanctifies the marriage.
4. To give social or moral sanction to: "The only books I wanted to read as a teenager were those sanctified by my elders and betters" (David Eggers).

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