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

Future administrations might also develop a more nuanced policy, enshrining some civil rights for transgender people but sidestepping the question of playing on sports teams, Soucek said. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Drake’s midlife crisis is seemingly less about shoring up his legacy as a legendary artist than enshrining himself as a historic main character capable of capturing the public’s attention by appealing to its most base instincts. — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

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