Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who sanctifies or makes holy; specifically [capitalized], in theology, the Holy Spirit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.

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  • noun One who sanctifies.

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Examples

  • Self, my dear Lucy, is a very wicked thing; a sanctifier, if one would give way to its partialities, of actions, which, in others, we should have no doubt to condemn.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • But yet, as the second person is considered as vested with his office of mediation, and the Holy Ghost as the comforter and sanctifier of his saints; so God the Father is in peculiar manner the object of our faith, and love, and worship.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • So our Lord Jesus Christ promiseth to send the Holy Ghost unto his disciples as a comforter, whom they had received before as a sanctifier.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Ghost who is the immediate peculiar sanctifier of all believers, and the author of all holiness in them.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • He did so as a sanctifier before he came unto them as a comforter.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • And the whole work of the Holy Ghost, as our sanctifier, guide, comforter, and advocate, is to make the love of the Father effectual unto us, John xvi.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Besides, it is such an avowed and owned principle among all that are called Christians, -- namely, that the Holy Ghost is the sanctifier of all God's elect, -- that as it is not questioned, so it need not in general be farther proved.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • But supposing it a duty in general so to compose prayers for our own use or the use of others, it is lawful and warrantable to pray for the aid and guidance of the Holy Ghost therein, not as unto his peculiar assistance in prayer, not as he is unto believers a Spirit of supplication, but as he is our sanctifier, the author and efficient cause of every gracious work and duty in us.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • But it is the work of this great purifier and sanctifier of the church to free our minds from these corrupt affections and inveterate prejudices, whereby we are alienated from the truth and inclined unto false conceptions of the mind of God; and unless this be done, in vain shall we think to learn the truth as it is in Jesus.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • So the Father and the Son do send the Spirit, as he condescends in an especial manner to the office of being the sanctifier and comforter of the church.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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