canonize

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Examples of canonize

  • Margaret was a deeply pious woman who was subsequently canonized.

  • Pope John Paul II canonized Juan Diego, the 16th-century Aztec whose vision of the Virgin Mary helped spread Catholicism to Mexico.

  • Rather than canonize him for the strength and dignity he displayed in his dying days, I prefer to remember him when he was in his prime.

  • Selfless fathers and father figures are being celebrated, even canonized, on America's movie screens.

  • Time and again, Freud would settle on a position only to reverse or enlarge the theory just as his advocates began to canonize it.

  • The Bible is always interpreted within the context of Holy Tradition, which gave birth to it and canonized it.

  • Had I been pope, he should have been canonized on the spot. 

  • He was canonized as a saint. 

  • He was canonized both for his holy life and for his great zeal in art. 

  • It was for his learning and sanctity that he was canonized,—and singularly enough by Alexander VI., the worst pope who ever reigned. 

  • The peasants had canonized him already a hundred years before the sanctity of his work was officially recognized at Rome. 

  • But to canonize the comparative method would be to show it scientific disrespect.

  • These workers, then, succeeded indirectly in canonizing themselves as national exemplars.

  • This argument has been canonized as the 'conventionalization thesis'.

  • As a linguistic process, transfiguration can be generative of new meanings, but the figures that are its products can be canonized as inherited truths.

  • A set of municipal statutory laws canonizing family concern for patrimonial cohesion represented the backbone of this mechanism.

  • We see the strategy by which, intentionally or not, the stand of the orthodoxy, through supposedly disinterested philosophical discussion, is canonized into an overarching theory of the growth of knowledge.

  • As long as canonized texts were involved, one could not proceed any further into the broad expanses in which the new science was asking its questions.

  • Many, though not all, of these studies examine episodes long canonized by the historiography of science as constitutive of whatever it is we mean by modern science.

  • You could canonize him or something of that sort, but there would be nothing else to be done.

  • When he was canonized, places and people were named after him, which popularized the name.

  • That is, such logics canonize the notion of logical form, and the notion of validity plays the central normative role.

  • After her death, her body as well as her life are scrutinized for indications that she is a saint, and at last she is canonized.

  • Two verified miracles must be attributed to a deceased candidate for sainthood before he or she can be canonized.

  • So with the other saints canonized by the council.

  • The order had 164 houses by 1767, when she was canonized.

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