canonise's Usage Examples:

while the confirmation of a 1992 miracle allowed for Pope Benedict XVI to canonise her on 12 October 2008 in Saint Peter's Square.

speaker argues that his love will canonise him into a kind of sainthood, the poem itself functions as a canonisation of the pair of lovers.

announced at the Consistory of Cardinals his intention to canonise Newman.

Newman was canonised by Pope Francis on 13 October 2019, during an open-air Mass.

This was one of the miracles that led the Pope to canonise Padre Pio in 2002.

Peculiar, Archbishop of Braga, to canonise Theotonius of Coimbra.

This helped canonise the status of both Onkelos and his Targum in the Jewish tradition.

between 1314 and 1344, in what seems to have been a concerted attempt to canonise Guðmundr.

the present day (the 1920s) brings news that the Catholic Church is to canonise her.

visited 129 countries during his pontificate, beatified 1,340 people, and canonised 483 saints, more than in all of the preceding five centuries.

Mount Argus Church Greyhound Stadium Pope to canonise new Saint for Ireland John Keogh Fr.

Campaign to canonise Timothy Leonard www.

Goldrofe was canonised in 1170 by Miguel Pais Salomão, Bishop of Coimbra, when Salomão himself.

elevated the abbey's status by successfully spearheading a campaign to canonise Saint Margaret of Scotland, a figure who had been claimed to be Dunfermline's.

officially canonise Clovis a number of times.

Rome was urged to canonise him, and among the evidences of his saintliness which his admirers appealed.

Post-war radical nationalists consequently sought to canonise the bush culture which had emerged during the 1890s.

received veneration as a saint himself, although he was never formally canonised.

Synonyms:

hold; declare; canonize; saint; adjudge;

Antonyms:

bad person; deny; discourage; depress; criticize;