[ UK /sˈækɹəsˌɑːnkt/ ]
[ US /ˈsækɹoʊsæŋkt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. must be kept sacred
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How To Use sacrosanct In A Sentence

  • As Marx said, faith in God too often becomes a way for people to abnegate our responsibility, deny our power and become passive in the face of a sacrosanct status quo. Philocrites: Back to the reverence debate!
  • The judge was making the point that the Pledge, in its current incarnation, is only about 50 – 60 years old and that the language “under God” was inserted at a particular time in response to concerns of that time and that the Pledge is not some sacrosanct invocation from the founders. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
  • Peace processes thus become sacrosanct and must be kept going at all costs. Times, Sunday Times
  • If something in science suddenly becomes so sacrosanct that you can't question it, then it ceases to be science.
  • Will we be accused of living in Utopia by asking if there is anything sacrosanct and inviolable anymore?
  • So the Senate rule that liberals fulminated against for decades has become sacrosanct.
  • They have been treated as sacrosanct, even though they are the moneybags behind the global scheme.
  • It was a strict upbringing in which rules were sacrosanct, orders were obeyed without question and everyone knew their place.
  • Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
  • Preservation advocate Christabel Gough of the Society for the Architecture of the City told the Landmarks Restoration Commission last year that the towers 'roofscape "should be sacrosanct under the landmarks law. Elizabeth Sargent, Last Carnegie Hall Towers Resident, Kicked Out
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