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  • noun The quality of being sacrosanct.

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sacrosanct +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • He is joyous, jubilant as a child, as he takes off his hat and bows deeply to the sacrosanctity that surrounds him.

    Picture Dreams 2009

  • Did I become, in my maturity, too convinced of the sacrosanctity of what lies beneath my skirt?

    If Truth Is A Woman, She Wears A Skort | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • It endowed both women with sacrosanctity and inviolability; they could walk anywhere without threat, as no man, be he the lowest and most predatory, would dare to touch a Vestal Virgin.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • It endowed both women with sacrosanctity and inviolability; they could walk anywhere without threat, as no man, be he the lowest and most predatory, would dare to touch a Vestal Virgin.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Did I become, in my maturity, too convinced of the sacrosanctity of what lies beneath my skirt?

    Archive 2007-06-17 2007

  • Did I become, in my maturity, too convinced of the sacrosanctity of what lies beneath my skirt?

    If Truth Is A Woman, She Wears A Skort 2007

  • Well, it would have kept almost fifty children from dying horrible deaths in one attack, but again, what is that compared to the sacrosanctity of ideology?

    STEADY ON COURSE FOR THE SHIP OF FOOLS 2006

  • In the West, Einstein's severely restricted general relativity has itself become tantamount to dogma, and any challenge to the sacrosanctity of the conservation laws results in immediate alarm.

    Chapter 4 1990

  • It appears to make secular or mechanicalize their profession, to rob preaching of its sacrosanctity, leave it less authority by making it more intelligible, remove it from the realm of the mystical and unique.

    Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch

  • The suggestion is not on the face of it paradoxical, but it will be rank heresy to those who blame the public for not bowing down before the sacrosanctity of the "serious" author.

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

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