unsanctification

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ sanctification.

Noun

unsanctification (uncountable)

Absence or lack of sanctification.
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion, page 65:
  Although from present unsanctification, a man cannot infer that he is not elected; for the decree may, for part of a man's life , run (as it were) underground; yet this is sure, that that estate leads to death, and unless it be broken, will prove the black line of reprobation.
- 1879, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, A Critical and Doctrinal Commentary Upon the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, page 147:
  To say that death to sin is incompatible with living in sin, is merely to say that sanctification is incompatible with unsanctification, which is so self-evident that no one would even think of the contrary. But to say that justification is incompatible with unsanctification is not so evident as to be a mere truism, and affords ground for an argument,—which St. Paul furnishes, by examining the intrinsic relation of atonement to self-indulgence, of justification to sanctification.
- 1900 April, Hermann Schultz, “The Significance of Sacrificein the Old Testament”, in The American Journal of Theology, volume 4, number 2, page 289:
  In the liturgical sphere of worship, indeed, the idea of creatural unsanctification, of distance between Creator and creature, is the prevailing one.
- 2023, William Sydney Porter, “The Bruised Reed”, in O. Henry Encore:
  He brought with him an odor of disrespectability, rum and unsanctification.