Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not sanctified; unholy; profane. Not consecrated.
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- adjective Not having been
sanctified . Not madesacred . Remainingmundane or worldly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
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Examples
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Thus great knowledge in the letter of the scripture, if the heart be unsanctified, is capable of being abused to serve the cause of infidelity, and to fight against Christianity with its own weapons.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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That death and hell will be death and hell indeed to those that fall unsanctified from the height of this world's pomps and the fulness of its pleasures.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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I feel quite ashamed of the measure of his success with me; but surely we want a new sanctification every day, -- a new recurrence to the grace that will _set_ "all dislocated bones," as J. Fletcher calls unsanctified feelings and affections.
A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall
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They dwelt with pathos upon those sacred rites desecrated by these "unsanctified" "young men" in their "miserable pamphlet."
The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams 1887
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"unsanctified," Mrs. Churton would have said -- it seemed as if the course of events had effectually parted the two girls, and that their close friendship was destined to be less a reality than a memory, so seldom were they able to meet.
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I was told it was because of my inward and unsanctified carnality that these persons were drawn to me.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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I was told it was because of my inward and unsanctified carnality that these persons were drawn to me.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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I was told it was because of my inward and unsanctified carnality that these persons were drawn to me.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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I was told it was because of my inward and unsanctified carnality that these persons were drawn to me.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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Russia and Gabon are blatantly banning all imports of the other white meat, while Egypt has ordered the mass-execution of all of their unhallowed hoggies (although this could merely be a convenient excuse to settle an age-old Islamic grudge -- why must unsanctified flesh taste so delicious!).
Warren Holstein: Preparing for the Swine Flu Apocalypse 2009
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