Sanctimoniousadjective
Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
Sanctifyverb
(transitive) To make holy; to consecrate; to set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.
Sanctimoniousadjective
(archaic) Holy, devout.
Sanctifyverb
(transitive) To free from sin; to purify.
Sanctimoniousadjective
Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly.
Sanctifyverb
(transitive) To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.
Sanctimoniousadjective
Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious.
Sanctifyverb
(transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.
Sanctimoniousadjective
excessively or hypocritically pious;
‘a sickening sanctimonious smile’;
Sanctifyverb
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.’;
Sanctifyverb
To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
‘Sanctify them through thy truth.’;
Sanctifyverb
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.’;
Sanctifyverb
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.’;
Sanctifyverb
render holy by means of religious rites
Sanctifyverb
make pure or free from sin or guilt;
‘he left the monastery purified’;