Purify vs. Sanctify

Purifyverb

(transitive) To cleanse, or rid of impurities.

Purifyverb

(transitive) To free from guilt or sin.

Purifyverb

(intransitive) To become pure.

Purifyverb

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.

Purifyverb

Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.

Purifyverb

To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.

Purifyverb

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

Purifyverb

To grow or become pure or clear.

Purifyverb

remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation;

Purifyverb

make pure or free from sin or guilt;

Purifyverb

become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin;

Sanctifyverb

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

Sanctifyverb

(transitive) To free from sin; to purify.

Sanctifyverb

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

Sanctifyverb

(transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.

Sanctifyverb

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

Sanctifyverb

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

Sanctifyverb

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

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.

Sanctifyverb

render holy by means of religious rites

Sanctifyverb

make pure or free from sin or guilt;