Synonyms of enshrining

enshrining 1 of 2

adjective

as in exalting

Related Words

• exalting
• canonizing
• glorifying
• dedicatory
• testimonial
• memorial
• commemorating
• commemorative
• epitaphic
• honorary
• memorializing
• epitaphial

enshrining

2 of 2

verb

present participle of enshrine

as in elevating

to assign a high status or value to

some teachers tend to enshrine their personal preferences as sacred rules of English grammar

Synonyms & Similar Words

• elevating
• promoting
• lifting
• enthroning
• exalting
• canonizing
• deifying
• ennobling
• aggrandizing
• dignifying
• upgrading
• honoring
• glorifying
• magnifying
• raising
• boosting
• praising
• enskying
• heightening
• uplifting
• intensifying
• extolling
• idealizing
• romanticizing
• lauding
• acclaiming
• sanitizing
• sugarcoating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• degrading
• humiliating
• minimizing
• humbling
• decrying
• disparaging
• demeaning
• detracting
• belittling
• depreciating
• abasing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of enshrining

Adjective

This includes re-enshrining, codifying and strengthening our inalienable rights in the United States and abolishing ICE to ensure immigration and the struggle of migrants is treated as a civilian one, requiring support instead of brutality and criminalization. — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026

Verb

Those realities have not prevented the teams themselves from enshrining the guilty, or the allegedly guilty. — Mac Engel july 24, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026

So this was really a dispute among the justices about understanding how far the victors basically of the civil war wanted to go in enshrining ideas about broad US citizenship. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Earlier this year, the General Assembly passed the Maryland Voting Rights Act, enshrining components of the federal VRA into state law. — Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026

Trump signed the bill, enshrining their orders into law. — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 22 June 2026

State constitutions, which often have clauses enshrining equality and education, can serve as a pathway for challenges to segregation that results from economics and housing patterns, said Robert Williams, a professor of law emeritus at Rutgers University. — Annie Ma, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026

That comment was even entered as an exhibit in the court case, officially enshrining Musk’s lies into the judicial record. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 30 Apr. 2026

On May 8, 1969, the Warriors made Long Rife their 13th-round selection in that year’s draft, enshrining her in the history books as the first woman drafted by an NBA team. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026

As the family's struggle unfolded, Castillo’s case was closely followed in Spain, which passed legislation in 2021 enshrining the right to euthanasia and medically assisted suicide for patients meeting certain conditions. — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026