Definition of Sacrosanctity

1. Noun. The quality of being sacrosanct. ¹

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Definition of Sacrosanctity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacrosanctity

sacrodynia
sacrofanite
sacroiliac
sacroiliac articulation
sacroiliac joint
sacroiliacs
sacroiliitis
sacrolisthesis
sacrolumbalis
sacrolumbar
sacropelvic surface of ilium
sacroposterior position
sacrosanct
sacrosanctities
sacrosanctity (current term)
sacrosanctly
sacrosanctness
sacrosanctum
sacrosciatic
sacrosciatic notch
sacrospinal
sacrospinous
sacrospinous ligament
sacrotomy
sacrotransverse position
sacrotuberous
sacrotuberous ligament
sacrouterine fold

Literary usage of Sacrosanctity

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

1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Their personal privileges and those of the aediles were renewed, while sacrosanctity was attached to a body of men called ..."

2. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"If this were fact, the "sacrosanctity" of the tribunes would be ... and the " sacrosanctity " of the plebeian officials became a part of the constitution. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"If this were fact, the "sacrosanctity" of the tribunes would be ... and the "sacrosanctity" of the plebeian officials became a part of the constitution. ..."

4. The Future of Japan: With a Survey of Present Conditions by W. Petrie Watson (1907)
"Neither the individual nor the political party is capable at present of becoming the major fact of State, and thereby of tearing the mask of sacrosanctity ..."

5. The Future of Japan: With a Survey of Present Conditions by W. Petrie Watson (1907)
"Neither the individual nor the political party is capable at present of becoming the major fact of State, and thereby of tearing the mask of sacrosanctity ..."

6. In Old Ceylon by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"The Tooth- Relic—tremendous as is now its sacrosanctity, and has been for many centuries—does not rank among the great original relics of Lanka, and cannot, ..."

7. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1898)
"... the sacrosanctity of the persons and the property of bishops, and, though this is not so prominent, the supremacy of the bishop of Rome. ..."

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