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English
Etymology
From un- + sanctified.
Adjective
unsanctified (not comparable)
- Not having been sanctified; not made sacred; remaining mundane or worldly. #*
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, pages 154–155: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.