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Sanctify vs Recognise - What's the difference?

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Sanctify is a related term of recognise.


In lang=en terms the difference between sanctify and recognise

is that sanctify is to endorse with religious sanction while recognise is to give an award.

As verbs the difference between sanctify and recognise

is that sanctify is to make holy; to consecrate set aside for sacred or ceremonial use while recognise is to match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.

sanctify

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make holy; to consecrate. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.
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    • And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
  • To free from sin; to purify.
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    • And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified , but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
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    • Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.
  • To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.
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    • For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
  • To endorse with religious sanction.

    • Synonyms

    * (to make holy) consecrate, hallow * (to free from sin) cleanse, purify

    Antonyms

    * profane

    Related terms

    * sanctification * sanctifier

    References

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    recognise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * recognize (US )

    Verb

    (recognis)
  • To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.
  • To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or valid.
  • To acknowledge or consider as something.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.}}
  • To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”}}
  • To give an award.

    • Anagrams

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