[ UK /sˈɑːnktɪti/ ]
[ US /ˈsæŋktɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being holy
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How To Use sanctity In A Sentence

  • It avoids a phony moral high ground or fake appeals to the sanctity of multilateralism. Globe and Mail
  • Aside from the sanctity of my goats and all I am happy to have coyotes, catamounts, bears and other preditors in the woods, they are hallmarks of a heathy ecosystem with all of its components in place. The Coyote--to Shoot or Not to Shoot. That is the Question.
  • It has been strongly opposed by many religions which emphasize the sanctity of human life from the day of conception.
  • Compared with the courage of these two outlanders, we in the D.C. press corps pay only lip service to the supposed sanctity of the reporter's right to protect his sources.
  • In old Mauritania, now Marocco,384 the Moors proper are notable sodomites; Moslems, even of saintly houses, are permitted openly to keep catamites, nor do their disciples think worse of their sanctity for such licence: in one case the English wife failed to banish from the home “that horrid boy.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • This is the era in which we now live, an era when the sanctity of human life is so much less than it was in times past.
  • She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling. Chapter X
  • ‘In the midst of all this,’ he writes of the era of Generation X and grunge rock, ‘satire alone could be safely, unequivocally embraced, because it acknowledged the sanctity of nothing at all.’
  • I am hoping that my hirsute body will prevent any bugs from plundering the sanctity of my inner ear.
  • Sooffee is a term originating in Persia, meaning enthusiasts or mystics, or persons distinguished by extraordinary sanctity. History of the Moors of Spain
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