sanctuariser
French, verb/sɑ̃k.tɥa.ʁi.ze/
sanctuariser is spelled S-A-N-C-T-U-A-R-I-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sanctuariser is a French verb meaning “to sanctuarize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner à un lieu, une chose le caractère sacré d'un sanctuaire”.
What does sanctuariser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sanctuarize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner à un lieu, une chose le caractère sacré d'un sanctuaire. 2. Rendre permanent, intangible.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sanctuariser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- sanctuarisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sanctuarisé participle past
- sanctuarise first-person indicative present
- sanctuarises indicative present second-person
- sanctuarisons first-person indicative plural
- sanctuarisez indicative plural present
- sanctuarisent indicative plural present
- sanctuarisais first-person imperfect indicative
- sanctuarisait imperfect indicative singular
- sanctuarisions first-person imperfect indicative
- sanctuarisiez imperfect indicative plural
- sanctuarisaient imperfect indicative plural
- sanctuarisai first-person historic indicative
- sanctuarisas historic indicative past
- sanctuarisa historic indicative past
- sanctuarisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sanctuariser?
- /sɑ̃k.tɥa.ʁi.ze/
- \sɑ̃k.tɥa.ʁi.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sanctuariser in French?
sanctuariser appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).