v. (UN-2 6 c.)
1594. Zepheria, xxv. Let not disdayne thy soule vnsanctifie.
1633. Prynne, Histrio-m., 648. If therefore Stage-playes unsanctifie or pollute the one,… needes must they defile the other too.
1693. Shadwell, Volunteers, IV. Lettice. You may see the most unhallow’d sight. Hackwell. Will it not unsanctifiy my eyes?
1831. Wordsw., Yarrow Revisited, 91. Nor deem that localised Romance … Unsanctifies our tears.
1862. Burton, Bk. Hunter, iv. 323. To imagine any process by which they could be unsanctified.
Hence Unsanctifying ppl. a.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxiv. (1861), V. 193. The sanctity of their profession has an unsanctifying influence on them.
