to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow

to separate from profane things and dedicate to God

1. consecrate things to God

2. dedicate people to God

to purify

1. to cleanse externally

2. to purify by expiation: free from the guilt of sin

3. to purify internally by renewing of the soul

most holy thing, a saint

absolutely

1. to act unjustly or wickedly, to sin,

2. to be a criminal, to have violated the laws in some way

3. to do wrong

4. to do hurt

transitively

1. to do some wrong or sin in some respect

2. to wrong some one, act wickedly towards him

3. to hurt, damage, harm

righteous, observing divine laws

1. in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God

   1. of those who seem to themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves in their virtues, whether real or imagined

   2. innocent, faultless, guiltless

   3. used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life

      1. only Christ truly

   4. approved of or acceptable of God

2. in a narrower sense, rendering to each his due and that in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others, whether expressed in words or shown by the manner of dealing with them

to render righteous or such he ought to be

to show, exhibit, evince, one to be righteous, such as he is and wishes himself to be considered

to declare, pronounce, one to be just, righteous, or such as he ought to be

yet, still

1. of time

   1. of a thing which went on formerly, whereas now a different state of things exists or has begun to exist

   2. of a thing which continues at present

      1. even, now

   3. with negatives

      1. no longer, no more

2. of degree and increase

   1. even, yet

   2. besides, more, further

and, also, even, indeed, but

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

to make filthy, defile, soil

to be filthy (morally)