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  • He goes on with his speech, There are boys in this class who will never know the Sanctifying Grace.†  (source)
  • They are sanctified religious and very good to me.†  (source)
  • ....Pour upon you the riches of his grace, sanctify and bless you, that ye may please him both in body and soul, and live together in holy love unto your lives' end.†  (source)
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  • Even defecation is ruled by African gods, who command that we use only the bushes that Tata Kuvudundu has sanctified for those purposes—and believe you me, he chooses bushes far away from the drinking water.†  (source)
  • "We must sanctify it in blood," the telkhine said.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Blood dripped from his chin as he cut down the net, sullying and sanctifying his prize.†  (source)
  • In the Name of God the Father Almighty who created you ....in the Name of Jesus Christ who redeemed you; in the Name of the Holy Spirit who sanctifies you.†  (source)
  • It rose from unpurified crimes, from deeds done against the gods, and from the unsanctified spilling of blood.†  (source)
    unsanctified = not made holy
    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.
  • 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)
  • In winter and fall she carried it to AME's and Baptists, Holinesses and Sanctifieds, the Church of the Redeemer and the Redeemed.†  (source)
    Sanctifieds = made holy
  • I avoid gatherings of these women, walking as I do in fear of being sanctified, or ese burned at the stake.†  (source)
  • He banished them, consigned them to the fire, not to desecrate them but to sanctify us.†  (source)
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