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  • Sanctity is a word used only for religious purposes.

    Think Progress » Former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO), 2006

  • English Way: Studies in English Sanctity from St. Bede to Newman, edited by Maisie Ward (London [1933], pp. 268-96).

    BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Truly Madam, there's a great Difference in the Men; yet Heav'n at first did it's part, but the Divel has since so over-done his, that what with the Vizor of Sanctity, which is the gadly Sneere, the drawing of the Face to a prodigious length, the formal language, with

    The Roundheads: or, The Good Old Cause 1682

  • Running out the door, Bush declared the final so-called Sanctity of Life Day for January 18th.

    RHRealityCheck.org 2009

  • "Sanctity" is one of those church words but essentially it is the belief that life, and the creation of human life is a sacred, sacred thing.

    Five Cent Stand 2009

  • While in Egypt she was undoubtedly taken as the symbol of sexual attractiveness par excellence, in Western Asia, where her person is much more elusive, she took her origin in a hypostasis of the "Sanctity" of the mother-goddess Asherah.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2 1975

  • The "Sanctity" of Marriage and the Gay Marriage Flap

    Archive 2004-02-01 2004

  • The "Sanctity" of Marriage and the Gay Marriage Flap

    Archive 2004-02-01 2004

  • Reality Show Screws with the "Sanctity" of Marriage / Dustin Rowles

    Pajiba 2009

  • Sanctity consists in making life good for everyone whose life we touch.

    Sister Joan Chittister, OSB: How I Came To Understand Sin OSB Sister Joan Chittister 2011

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