Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Holiness; sacredness; sanctity.
- noun Sanctimony; affected sanctity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Holiness; sacredness; sanctity.
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- adjective
holiness ;sacredness ;sanctity
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- noun the quality of being holy
Etymologies
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Examples
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And when taking photos for nude girls I feel a kind of sanctitude as I am witnessing glamour of human body, the owner said.
China College Girls Pose Totally Naked for Eternal Beauty | Impact Lab 2007
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And when taking photos for nude girls I feel a kind of sanctitude as I am witnessing glamour of human body, "the owner said.
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If you wanted total sanctitude and Marxist-Leninist zeal, I'm afraid you're going to be very let down.
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But the word science has acquired a certain sanctitude.
I'll Take My Stand 2008
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So enough with the "We have to preserve the sanctitude of the General Fund" claptrap.
From On High 2007
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Had he known that Duffel's story was made so fitly apt, simply because he had basely eavesdropped and sacrilegiously listened to the sanctitude of a conversation at the domestic hearth, how different would have been the result!
Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival Alvin Addison
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Providence prodigally conferred upon it in the early times of the institution, or to initiate it into a more scrupulous sanctitude, by interdicting to it some things that are left permissive to others.
A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth Isaac Samuele Reggio
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She had the promise from the saints that her line had a great destiny, and the form of it she took to be sanctitude.
The Path of the King John Buchan 1907
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English law, always so careful of domestic sanctitude in women, provided that a wife who killed her husband should be dragged by a horse to the place of execution and burnt alive.
Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900
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Such had been ‘the sad stories of the deaths of kings’; yet the awful sacro-sanctitude of the imperial person was ideally unimpaired, and the spirit of the old Lex Majestatis still haunted the minds of men.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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