Usually means: Make holy through religious ritual.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word sanctify:

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  1. sanctify: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sanctify: Merriam-Webster
  3. sanctify, sanctify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sanctify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sanctify: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sanctify: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sanctify, sanctify: Wordnik
  8. sanctify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sanctify: Wiktionary
  10. sanctify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sanctify: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sanctify: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sanctify: Dictionary.com
  14. sanctify: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sanctify: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sanctify (song), Sanctify: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sanctify: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sanctify: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sanctify: Rhymezone
  20. Sanctify: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sanctify: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sanctify: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sanctify: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sanctify: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sanctify: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sanctify: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sanctify: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make holy; to consecrate; to set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.
verb:  (transitive) To free from sin; to purify.
verb:  (transitive) To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.
verb:  (transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.

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