sanctification

1. 1.

   a religious ceremony in which something is made holy

   Broaderreligious ceremony

   Narrowerbeatificationcanonizationconsecration

Other forms of sanctification

plural

sanctifications·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sanctification

What does sanctification mean?

sanctification means "a religious ceremony in which something is made holy".

How many syllables are in sanctification?

sanctification has 5 syllables: sanc-ti-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌsæŋktəfəˈkeɪʃən/.

Is sanctification a common word?

sanctification is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sanctification?

104 words rhyme with sanctification. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.