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Purify vs. Sanctify — What's the Difference?

Purify vs. Sanctify — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Purify and Sanctify

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Purify

To rid of impurities
Purify water.

Sanctify

To set apart for sacred use; consecrate
The preacher sanctified the ground as a cemetery.

Purify

To rid of foreign or objectionable elements
Tried to purify the party of its dissenters.

Sanctify

To make holy; purify
They felt the spirit had descended and sanctified their hearts. They sanctified the body with holy oil.

Purify

To free from moral or spiritual defilement
Rituals to purify the soul.
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Sanctify

To give religious sanction to, as with an oath or vow
The wedding ceremony sanctifies the marriage.

Purify

(transitive) To cleanse, or rid of impurities.

Sanctify

To give social or moral sanction to
"The only books I wanted to read as a teenager were those sanctified by my elders and betters" (David Eggers).

Purify

(transitive) To free from guilt or sin.

Sanctify

(transitive) To make holy; to consecrate; to set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.

Purify

(intransitive) To become pure.

Sanctify

(transitive) To free from sin; to purify.

Purify

To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.

Sanctify

(transitive) To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.

Purify

Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.
And fit them soPurified to receive him pure.

Sanctify

(transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.

Purify

To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, . . . and purified the altar.
Purify both yourselves and your captives.

Sanctify

To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.
Moses . . . sanctified Aaron and his garments.

Purify

To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.

Sanctify

To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
Sanctify them through thy truth.

Purify

To grow or become pure or clear.

Sanctify

To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
A means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as to make me repent of that unjust act.

Purify

Remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation;
Purify the water

Sanctify

To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.
The holy man, amazed at what he saw,Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law.
Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line.

Purify

Make pure or free from sin or guilt;
He left the monastery purified

Sanctify

Render holy by means of religious rites

Purify

Become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin;
The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify

Sanctify

Make pure or free from sin or guilt;
He left the monastery purified

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