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Definition of Sanctums
1. sanctum [n] - See also: sanctum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sanctums
Literary usage of Sanctums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War by Judith White Brockenbrough] [McGuire (1868)
"It makes my blood boil when I remember that our private rooms, our chambers, our
very sanctums, are thrown open to a ruthless soldiery. ..."
2. Japan and World Peace by Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami (1919)
"Under bureaucratic cabinets the offices of ministers and vice-ministers, as well
as those of other high officials, were like sanctums, inaccessible to ..."
3. Chapters in the History of Popular Progress: Chiefly in Relation to the by James Routledge (1876)
"People even know that it has been damped before being printed. In old times, when
editors sat in what they called their " sanctums "—there are no " sanctums ..."
4. The American Baptist Pulpit at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century edited by Henry Thompson Louthan (1903)
"You will hear it from platform, and the sanctums of our great daily papers are
full of it, and the sanctums of the magazines arc full of it, religious and ..."
5. Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War by Judith White Brockenbrough] [McGuire (1868)
"It makes my blood boil when I remember that our private rooms, our chambers, our
very sanctums, are thrown open to a ruthless soldiery. ..."
6. Japan and World Peace by Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami (1919)
"Under bureaucratic cabinets the offices of ministers and vice-ministers, as well
as those of other high officials, were like sanctums, inaccessible to ..."
7. Chapters in the History of Popular Progress: Chiefly in Relation to the by James Routledge (1876)
"People even know that it has been damped before being printed. In old times, when
editors sat in what they called their " sanctums "—there are no " sanctums ..."
8. The American Baptist Pulpit at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century edited by Henry Thompson Louthan (1903)
"You will hear it from platform, and the sanctums of our great daily papers are
full of it, and the sanctums of the magazines arc full of it, religious and ..."
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