verb (sanctifies, sanctifying, sanctified, sanctified) [VN] [usuallypassive] (formal)
1 to make sth holy
2 to make sth seem right or legal; to give official approval to sth:
This was a practice sanctified by tradition. * Psychology had sanctified the opinion that youthful rebellion was a natural stage of adolescence.
sanctification noun [U]
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