sanctify

To set apart for sacred use; consecrate.

To make holy; purify.

To give religious sanction to, as with an oath or vow.

To give social or moral sanction to.

To make holy or clean, either ceremonially or morally and spiritually; purify or free from sin.

To consecrate; set apart from a common to a sacred use; hallow or render sacred; invest with a sacred or elevated character: said of things or persons.

To make efficient as a means of holiness; render productive of spiritual blessing.

To make free from guilt; give a religious or a legal sanction to.

To keep pure; render inviolable.

To celebrate or confess as holy.