8 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
verb render holy by means of religious rites
verb make pure or free from sin or guilt
originFrom Anglo-Norman seintefier, from Old French saintefier, from Late Latin sānctificō, from Latin sānctus (“holy”) + faciō (“do, make”). Form altered to conform with Latin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0