Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a manner or degree tending to sanctify or make holy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a manner or degree tending to sanctify or make holy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb So as to
sanctify or makeholy .
Etymologies
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sanctifying + -ly
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Examples
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Just so will God, in that great day of grace, bring out of infancy and childhood, sanctifyingly touched by his Spirit, what creates them children of God, as truly as their parents, though too subtle to be seen, or defined, till it has blushed into color, in the sunlight of their intelligence in the truth.
Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876
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