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unsanctified

unsanctified adjective: not having been sanctified; not made sacred; remaining mundane or worldly.

Adjective

unsanctified (not comparable)

  1. Not having been sanctified; not made sacred; remaining mundane or worldly.
    • They forced me into a convent, whence your father rescued me: and that evening I was married to him—ay, married. A daughter of my noble house could not have stooped to a love unsanctified by duty.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 154–155

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Origin of unsanctified

From un- + sanctified.

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Questions about unsanctified

What does unsanctified mean?
Unsanctified means not having been sanctified; not made sacred; remaining mundane or worldly.
What part of speech is unsanctified?
Unsanctified is an adjective.

Words near unsanctified in the dictionary

  1. unsamplable
  2. unsampleable
  3. unsampled
  4. unsanctifiable
  5. unsanctification
  6. unsanctified
  7. unsanctifiedly
  8. unsanctifiedness
  9. unsanctifies
  10. unsanctify
  11. unsanctifying

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