▪ I. sanctifying, vbl. n.
(ˈsæŋktɪfaɪɪŋ)
[f. sanctify v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb sanctify.
| 1526 Tindale 1 Thess. iv. 3 Every one of you shulde knowe howe to kepe his vessel in sanctifyinge and honoure. 1529 More Dyaloge ii. Wks. 199/2 Though those [saints] bee none whose writing ye wold authorise by their sanctifyeng. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Sanctification, The sanctifying of the sabbath..is of divine..institution. |
▪ II. ˈsanctifying, ppl. a.
[f. sanctify v. + -ing2.]
That sanctifies.
| 1586 Hooker Serm. on Justif., etc. §3 (1612) 3 There is a glorifying righteousnes of men in the world to come; as there is a iustifying and a sanctifying righteousnes here. 1706 Stanhope Paraphr. III. 525 Do not..provoke him to withdraw those sanctifying Graces from you, which are given you as an Earnest of your Salvation at the last Day. 1738 Wesley Ps. li. x, But perfectly my Soul renew By sanctifying Love. 1858 Holland Titcomb's Lett. iv. 206 Both have been chastened..by a relation as sanctifying as it is sacred. 1886 Welldon Serm. Harrow x. (1887) 151 It is to be in the world, yet not of it; to live above it; to let your presence be a sanctifying influence among men. |
Hence ˈsanctifyingly adv.
| 1847 Bushnell Chr. Nurt. viii. (1861) 202 Sanctifyingly touched by his Spirit. |