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canonizing
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canonize \Can"on*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canonized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Canonizing .] [F. canoniser or LL. canonizare, fr. L. canon.. See Canon .] (Eccl.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was ...
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vb. (present participle of canonize English)
Usage examples of canonizing.
It is obvious to Charlie that the whole forward thrust of modern Christianity depends on canonizing a few saints.
You were the one, were you not, who set off this business of canonizing Mary?
Do you deny that you are the one who stirred up the stink about canonizing Mary?
Although the canonizing of saints may have been good in olden times, it is not good now.
For it is evident that through the canonizing of saints neither God’s glory nor the improvement of Christians is sought, but only money and glory, in that one church wants to be something more and have something more than others, and would be sorry if another had the same thing and its advantage were common property.
I told him so many diplomats and politicians were canonizing Lloyd that I thought a dissenting opinion would give my story depth.