For decades, maybe centuries (the details are murky), some people in Mexico had been venerating a kind of sanctified death figure.
But it has never been sanctified, no more than any other human pursuit, from sports to politics.
Lying to get a date, as Smith and Kozinski correctly suggest, is a sanctified practice in human courtship.
Youth, beauty, apparent vigour and even the most arguable personal virtues may be sanctified by a sudden and violent death.
That they are the children of believing, sanctified parents; 2.
By her presence she had sanctified it and made of it a shrine for his meditative and wakeful hours.
He that sanctifieth and those who are sanctified, find their full satisfaction in Him, and in Him alone.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
The fruits of a sanctified life are often seen long after the person who lived that life has ceased from earthly strivings.
Born of sanctified parents we are bound to be good and we cannot help ourselves.
late 14c., seintefie "to consecrate," from Old French saintefier "sanctify" (12c., Modern French sanctifier), from Late Latin sanctificare "to make holy," from sanctus "holy" (see saint (n.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Form altered in English c.1400 to conform with Latin. Meaning "to render holy or legitimate by religious sanction" is from c.1400; transferred sense of "to render worthy of respect" is from c.1600. Related: Sanctified; sanctifying.