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sanctified

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verb

past tense of sanctify

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanctified
Adjective
  • The tenth and final day of the High Holidays, Yom Kippur is the holiest Jewish holiday of the year.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The Manchester police were calling on people to stay inside and avoid the area, but that message was not reaching the community deep in prayer on this holiest of days.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jews were purged from the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1939, when the Soviet Union signed a pact with Nazi Germany, and antisemitic show trials followed not long after Germany’s defeat.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Many of China’s top military officials have been purged during Xi’s third term on charges of corruption or disloyalty.
    PHILIP H. GORDON, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • God has blessed us beyond belief.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • God blessed me with 7 beautiful children—3 sons and 4 daughters.
    Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • To share that sacred experience with your mother, sister, aunt, grandmother and great-grandmother?
    Essence, Essence, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Millions of people around the world today are observing Yom Kippur, the most sacred holiday in the Jewish faith.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Less pure sand can be purified by methods such as acid washing or magnetic separation.
    Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This innovation purified the Ohio River water so well that the number of deaths from typhoid fever declined by 60% in 1909.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But there is more: a little way back from the water, knuckle-like boulders of sandstone or some other friable rock sharpen the ambience of a consecrated space.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Churches are fine, but consecrated Earth is dangerous to them.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 June 2025
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“Sanctified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanctified. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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