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Sanctify vs Unsanctify - What's the difference?

sanctify | unsanctify | Antonyms |

Unsanctify is a antonym of sanctify.



In transitive terms the difference between sanctify and unsanctify

is that sanctify is to endorse with religious sanction while unsanctify is to reduce from a holy condition; to make profane.

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

    References

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    unsanctify

    English

    Verb

  • To reduce from a holy condition; to make profane.
  • Antonyms

    * sanctify