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Canonise

verb
1.
Treat as a sacred person.  Synonym: canonize.
2.
Declare (a dead person) to be a saint.  Synonyms: canonize, saint.





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... courage to the army, and leading to more unmingled dependence on God. Covetousness was stoned to death in Israel, and struck with sudden destruction in the Apostolic Church. It has been reserved for the modern Church to tolerate and almost to canonise it; and yet we wonder how it comes that we are so often foiled before some little Ai, and so seldom see any walls falling by our assault. Let us listen to that stern sentence, 'I will not be with you ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren


Words linked to "Canonise" :   faith, saint, religion, canonisation, canon, hold, adjudge, extol, exalt, glorify, laud, organized religion, declare, proclaim, canonize


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