Sanctity
['sæŋ(k)tɪtɪ] or ['sæŋktəti]
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness.
(n.) Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath.
(n.) A saint or holy being.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Purity, holiness, godliness, saintliness, goodness, piety, grace, religion, devotion.[2]. Sacredness, inviolability, solemnity.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Holiness, sacredness, godliness, piety, solemnity
ANT:Unholiness, profaneness, ungodliness, impiety, secularly
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Examples
- Never had Lefferts so abounded in the sentiments that adorn Christian manhood and exalt the sanctity of the home. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The sanctity of their dress will not only protect them, but serve to conceal their political and commercial investigations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Closely related to the constitution and just as decadent to-day are the Sanctity of Private Property, Vested Rights, Competition the Life of Trade, Prosperity (at any cost). Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There's a sanctity in this relation of life,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'and—and—it must be kept up. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He does not care for that: when my time came to die, he would resign me, in all serenity and sanctity, to the God who gave me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We all feel the sanctity of our sex as a high privilege when we see danger. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What to him the sanctity of the star which the Son of God has hallowed as his own emblem? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Never mind, when we become as civilized as you, we also will mask our wickedness under the cloak of sanctity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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