Sanctify
['sæŋ(k)tɪfaɪ] or ['sæŋktɪfaɪ]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
(v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
(v. t.) To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
(v. t.) To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.
校對:沃尔多
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Make holy, cleanse from sin.[2]. Consecrate, hallow.
編輯:韦斯利
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Consecrate, hallow, celebrate, purify, justify, sanction, ratify
ANT:Desecrate, profane, misobserve, pollute, disannul
編輯:基蒂
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make sacred or holy: to set apart to sacred use: to free from sin or evil: to consecrate: to invest with a sacred character: to make efficient as the means of holiness: to secure from violation:—pa.t. and pa.p. sanc′tifīed.—n. Sanctanim′ity holiness of mind.—v.t. Sanctif′icāte.—n. Sanctificā′tion act of sanctifying: state of being sanctified: that work or process of God's free grace whereby the new principle of spiritual life implanted in regeneration is developed until the whole man is renewed in the image of God: consecration.—adj. Sanc′tified made holy: sanctimonious.—adv. Sanctifī′edly sanctimoniously.—n. Sanc′tifier one who sanctifies: the Holy Spirit.—adv. Sanc′tifyingly.—adj. Sanctimō′nious having sanctity: holy devout: affecting holiness.—adv. Sanctimō′niously.—ns. Sanctimō′niousness Sanc′timony affected devoutness show of sanctity; Sanc′titude holiness goodness saintliness: affected holiness; Sanc′tity quality of being sacred or holy: purity: godliness: inviolability: a saint any holy object.—v.t. Sanc′tuarise (Shak.) to shelter by sacred privileges as in a sanctuary.—ns. Sanc′tūary a sacred place: a place for the worship of God: the most sacred part of the Temple of Jerusalem: the Temple itself: the part of a church round the altar: an inviolable asylum refuge a consecrated place which gives protection to a criminal taking refuge there: the privilege of taking refuge in such a consecrated place; Sanc′tum a sacred place: a private room; Sanc′tus the ascription 'Holy holy holy Lord God of Hosts ' from Isa. vi.: a musical setting of the same.—Sanctum sanctorum the Holy of Holies: any specially reserved retreat or room.—Odour of sanctity the aroma of goodness.
整理:罗德尼
例句/造句/用法:
- Did not I appear sanctified, even to myself, because this love had for its temple my heart? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The pious purpose of converting them to Christianity sanctified the injustice of the project. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Be candid as a convicted, justified, sanctified Methody at an experience meeting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But, Joe had sanctified it, and I had believed in it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- He held her, almost as if she were sanctified to him by death, and kissed her, once, almost as he might have kissed the dead. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Distance sanctifies both. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- MY BETH Sitting patient in the shadow Till the blessed light shall come, A serene and saintly presence Sanctifies our troubled home. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
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