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单词 sanctify
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sanctify
verb[T]
uk
/ˈsæŋk.tɪ.faɪ/us
/ˈsæŋk.tə.faɪ/
formal
to make something or someoneholy
to make somethingsociallyorofficiallyacceptable:
使合法化；批准；认可
apracticesanctifiedbymanyyearsoftradition多年的传统所认可的做法
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(Definition ofsanctifyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
sanctify
verb[T]
uk
/ˈsæŋk.tɪ.faɪ/us
/ˈsæŋk.tə.faɪ/
formal
to make aneventorplaceholy
使神圣化，使圣洁化
to make somethingsociallyorofficiallyacceptable
使合法化；批准；认可
apracticesanctifiedbymanyyearsoftradition多年的传统所认可的做法

sanctify| American Dictionary

sanctify
verb[T]
us
/ˈsæŋk·təˌfɑɪ/
to makeholy:
arelationshipsanctified bymarriage
(Definition ofsanctifyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsanctify

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Instead, they base their actions on a particular sort of practical reason sanctified by religious tradition (pp. 18, 30).
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They were spiritual agents with a spiritual goal and were morally sanctified.
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The male and female meet in the ultimate symbolic sanctified union, a sexuality operating here within socially legitimate bonds that is not only sacred but also potentially safe.
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We had the word "co-ordination", but that has been unfrocked, if that is the right term, and the word "rationalisation" has been sanctified.
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I am not an enthusiast for interventionist measures, even when they are sanctified by the description of a balanced regional economic policy.
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Are we to reverse this whole process, sanctified by some sort of view that we are promoting a voluntary prices structure?
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I am, therefore, already sanctified by one of the first principles of jurisprudence.
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I do not think that something should be sanctified simply because it has been in existence for a long time.
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They seem to think that their relationship is as stable as if it were sanctified by the full legal status.
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The hereditary principle, for any of these purposes, is a piece of nonsense sanctified, if at all, only by its long existence.
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Harsh as the penalties may appear on paper, they have been sanctified by mitigation.
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The report obfuscates the issue of capital, the profit-driven process, and sanctifies the market forces.
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I wish to speak about another provision which might also have been sanctified by time, but which we might look at again.
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Our association together has been sanctified by blood shed in two wars.
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We have sanctified that there should be no limitations on how far immunities stretch.
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