Sample Sentences forsanctification (auto-selected)
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On arriving at the threshold of the baptistry, the priest pauses to offer up a prayer, then enters and blesses the water of the font, "to the end that a heavenly offspring, conceived by sanctification, may emerge from the immaculate womb of the divine font, reborn new creatures: and that all, however distinguished either by sex in body, or by age in time, may be brought forth to the same infancy by grace, their spiritual mother."† (source)
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But I thought that our marriage might be a sanctification for us both.† (source)
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I'm in charge of all the chapels of the Sanctification Brotherhood here.† (source)
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This so-called benefactor of mankind talked a fine game about purification and sanctification, but in fact he was bent upon the emasculation of life, wanted to let it bleed to death.† (source)
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In the same way he beheld, as though they had passed before him in visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed the double rule of his soul,—the concealment of his name, the sanctification of his life.† (source)
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She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of his soul, the abolition of time, place and circumstance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysteries and the sanctification of all the dogmas.† (source)
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They are sanctified religious and very good to me.† (source)
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He banished them, consigned them to the fire, not to desecrate them but to sanctify us.† (source)
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He was a man of twenty-nine, a graduate of Pottsburg Christian College and of the Sanctification Bible and Missions School.† (source)
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Instead he barks at him, Never mind what's Sanctifying Grace, Quigley.† (source)
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To attain this end, are you justified in overleaping an obstacle of custom — a mere conventional impediment which neither your conscience sanctifies nor your judgment approves?† (source)
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It would seem that Dave had fallen victim to it, and that he'd come to believe he had helped provide an unsanctified vessel and filled it with Something intended only for those things which had made the scene in the first chapter of Genesis ...With computers it was not quite as bad as with the Hangman, though, because you could always argue that no matter how elaborate the program, it was basically an extension of the programmer's will and the operations of causal machines merely represented functions of intelligence, rather than intelligence in its own right backed by a will of its own.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsanctified means not and reverses the meaning of sanctified. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,—a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,—and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection.† (source)
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In winter and fall she carried it to AME's and Baptists, Holinesses and Sanctifieds, the Church of the Redeemer and the Redeemed.† (source)
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Deep down, I was saying good-bye to my father, to the whole universe, and, against my will, I found myself whispering the words: "Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba ...May His name be exalted and sanctified ..."† (source)
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The poor have always been the favorites of God and his saints, but I believe that it is one of the special achievements of Grace to sanctify the whole of life, riches included.† (source)
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