Sanctimonious vs. Sanctify

Sanctimoniousadjective

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

Sanctimoniousadjective

(archaic) Holy, devout.

Sanctimoniousadjective

Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly.

Sanctimoniousadjective

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

Sanctimoniousadjective

excessively or hypocritically pious;

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;