different between honour vs sanctify

English

Alternative forms

• honor (American)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?(?)/

Noun

honour (countable and uncountable, plural honours)

1. British spelling, Canadian spelling, South African spelling, Commonwealth of Nations, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
   • 1902, Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible, Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:

     Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour.

Antonyms

• dishonour

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

honour (third-person singular simple present honours, present participle honouring, simple past and past participle honoured)

1. British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth of Nations, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.

Derived terms

• honour in the breach

Translations

Middle English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman honour.

Noun

honour (plural honours)

1. honour

Descendants

• English: honour, honor

References

p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.

Old French

Noun

honour m (oblique plural honours, nominative singular honours, nominative plural honour)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of honur

   […] prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun et honour de marquys queux il avoit pardevant.

   […] prayed to the king that even the count could be restored to his name and his honour of marquee that he had before

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman seintefier, from Old French saintefier, from Late Latin s?nctific?, from Latin s?nctus (“holy”) + faci? (“do, make”). Form altered to conform with Latin.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?sæ?k.t?.fa?/

Verb

sanctify (third-person singular simple present sanctifies, present participle sanctifying, simple past and past participle sanctified)

1. (transitive) To make holy; to consecrate; to set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.

   • 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.

2. (transitive) To free from sin; to purify.

   • 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.

   • 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.

3. (transitive) To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.

   • 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.

4. (transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.

Synonyms

• (to make holy): consecrate, hallow; see also Thesaurus:consecrate
• (to free from sin): cleanse, purify

Antonyms

• * (to make holy): profane; see also Thesaurus:desecrate

Related terms

• sanctification
• sanctifier

Translations

References

• sanctify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sanctify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.