Sacredness
['sekrɪdnɪs]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Holiness, sanctity.[2]. Inviolableness.
Typed by Bartholdi
Examples
- That unconscious appeal, so touching and so awful in the sacredness of her sleep, ran through me like fire. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But it must be remembered that the sacredness of property is a notion far more fixed in modern than in ancient times. Plato. The Republic.
- The truth and certainty of numbers, when thus disengaged from phenomena, gave them a kind of sacredness in the eyes of an ancient philosopher. Plato. The Republic.
Edited by Lilian