Sanctissimum definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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But, in truth, I am weary to behold the miserable estate of this people, fallen upon them through their own folly, and methinks that he who should do the best offices of peace would perform a 'pium et sanctissimum opus.'

—History of the United Netherlands, 1588a

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Laudetur in aeternum sanctissimum Sacramentum. — The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book
When he appeared in the front of the house, I retired to my sanctissimum and my dressing-gown. — If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact
Pythagoras held _Malvoe folium sanctissimum_; and we read of Epimenides in _Plato_, "at his — Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
But, in truth, I am weary to behold the miserable estate of this people, fallen upon them through their own folly, and methinks that he who should do the best offices of peace would perform a 'pium et sanctissimum opus.' — History of the United Netherlands, 1588a
Hast thou not, with sacrilegious hands, dared to break into the Lord's sanctuary, and carry off the consecrated vessels of the _sanctissimum_? — The Robbers