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a religious ceremony in which something is made holy- Some worry that capitalism sanctifies greed. Others think capitalism can direct greed to help the community.
- He banished them, consigned them to the fire, not to desecrate them but to sanctify us.Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
- Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
- The year before I had concentrated too much on opening a window to the outside world and had failed to illuminate and sanctify the island around them.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- I avoid gatherings of these women, walking as I do in fear of being sanctified, or ese burned at the stake.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Distance sanctifies both.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- MY BETH Sitting patient in the shadow Till the blessed light shall come, A serene and saintly presence Sanctifies our troubled home.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- "We must sanctify it in blood," the telkhine said.Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- The poor little thing imagined that she was going for a brief outing before that marriage of which he talked and which was to seal and sanctify it.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- But I thought that our marriage might be a sanctification for us both.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- It was sanctified to such use of man, now we sanctify it to God.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- He had to tell someone or die, or else tell the truth, and so the relief he obtained was sanctified within the domestic rituals of love.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- So help me every spirit sanctified, As I have spoken for you all my best, And stood within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech!William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
- He carefully combined the suffumigation chemicals that he would later ignite to sanctify the air.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- Blood dripped from his chin as he cut down the net, sullying and sanctifying his prize.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- Sanctify the ground with the touch of thy foot, that we may eat the dirt and be ennobled!Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- This ground sanctified by blood.Dalton Trumbo -- Johnny Got His Gun
- It was a street populated by old wood frame houses, many of them used by fraternities and sororities, but it was no longer the sanctified quad.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- They are sanctified religious and very good to me.Alice Walker -- The Color Purple