Sanctimonious vs. Sanctify — What's the Difference?

Behaving with sanctimony

To set apart for sacred use; consecrate

Characterized by sanctimony

To make holy; purify

Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.

To give religious sanction to, as with an oath or vow

(archaic) Holy, devout.

To give social or moral sanction to

Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly.

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

Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious.

(transitive) To free from sin; to purify.

Excessively or hypocritically pious;

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

(transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.

To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.

To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.

To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.

To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.

Render holy by means of religious rites

Make pure or free from sin or guilt;