Definition of Holy place

1. Noun. A sacred place of pilgrimage.

Exact synonyms: Holy, Sanctum
Generic synonyms: Place, Spot, Topographic Point

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy Place

holy grails
holy guacamole
holy hour
holy kamoley
holy kamoly
holy mackerel
holy man
holy moley
holy moly
holy of holies
holy oil
holy order
holy orders
holy person
holy place (current term)
holy smoke
holy terror
holy thistle
holy war
holy wars
holy water
holy water sprinkler
holy waters
holydam
holydame
holydames
holydams
holyday

Literary usage of Holy place

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The distinction between the Holy and the Most holy place is much less marked. Both ark and high-priest are passed ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"There was a curtain between the holy place and the holy of holies, and the entrance to the holy place seems also to have been hung with a curtain. ..."

3. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"22), and stood before the veil which separated the holy place from the Holy ... When the priest entered the holy place with the incense, all the people were ..."

4. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it he. eaten in the holy place: in the court uf the tabernacle of tho congregation they shall eat it. ..."

5. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"Wherefore have ye ri'jt eaten. ..in the holy 18. within the holy (place) .... IN the holy (place) shall thou cause the habitation of thy holiness) 33: 2. he ..."

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