sacredness
神圣性,圣洁性,圣洁,神圣
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Definitions
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- : devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- : entitled to veneration or religious respect by association with divinity or divine things; holy.
- : pertaining to or connected with religion: sacred music;sacred books.
- : reverently dedicated to some person, purpose, or object: a morning hour sacred to study.
- : regarded with reverence: the sacred memory of a dead hero.
- : secured against violation, infringement, etc., as by reverence or sense of right: sacred oaths; sacred rights.
- : properly immune from violence, interference, etc., as a person or office.
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Examples
Anyway, the Mel hot take made me really double down on the marriage between chocolate and peanut butter, what with it being a SACRED institution and all.
The TV deals and popularity exposed millions to the sacred art form, which fostered a proliferation of gyms, competitions and organizational bodies.
They take away sacred land so they can build a shooting range and they lie to us about it.
A sacred excuse to commune with the raw force of the planet that only parks can provide.
The ritual to pray for an H-1B includes pradakshina, the practice of circling around an image, relic, shrine, or other sacred objects.
They did not think of liberty, and armies, and the sacredness of democracy.
But now the image has become repressed because of its, I don't know—sacredness.
The congregation, forgetting the sacredness of the place, were in a broad grin, and the parson looked daggers.
Neither the sacredness of law nor the weapons of their friends could longer afford them any protection.
Here we have an example of the British idea of the sacredness of private character.
She was a creature consecrated, made holy by suffering; she was the sacredness of life incarnate, a thing godlike, beyond earth.
Had he entertained more enlightened views as to the sacredness of life, he might have felt differently.