sacred

• These really are a people who live and breathe the realm of the sacred, a baroque religiosity that is simply awesome. —  Wade Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual
• I wish our poets would attend a little more accurately to the use of the word sacred, which surely should never be applied in a serious composition, but where some reference may be made to a higher Being, or where some duty is exacted or implied. —  Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
• Then the written word became "sacred" - codifying the stories in stone. —  Arcata Eye
• Linear B also provides a word for an 'open fire altar' that might describe this altar on Mt. Lykaion as well as a word for a sacred area, temenos, a term known from later historical sources. —  Signs of the Times
• Because "In every land, there have been innocent persons who suffered, people who died fighting for freedom, equality or justice" (third station), and "Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today: when things that are most Holy and Profound in the Faith are being trivialized; the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode; the religious sentiment is classified among unwelcome leftovers of antiquity." —  Clerical Whispers

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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