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Definition of sacrosanct:

  • (adjective) must be kept sacred (very holy)
  • (adjective) Beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction

Sentence Examples:

John, now (almost) universally sacrosanct to Pity, was, I think, probably the original Holy Rood.

In the spiritual interpretation of the collective task as outlined, the individual remains integral and sacrosanct.

If you are at war with him, and hold his fortress in his teeth, I am his ambassador and sacrosanct.

They were handed down in families from father to son and nobody dared to interfere with them, they were sacrosanct.

Philip personally could hardly be expected to look upon it otherwise; for in his eyes a King, however bad, was sacrosanct.

It is always a dangerous and exciting inquiry; especially because the most irrational conventions are apt also to be the most sacrosanct.

Instead of being sacrosanct truths affording a redemption by grace to facts otherwise ambiguous, they were the articulating of ordinary facts.

No revolutionary step was taken, no general strike was declared, no attack was made on the sacrosanct person of the Emperor.

There is, as a matter of fact, no reason to attribute the peculiarly sacrosanct nature of a type to one piece more than another.

I went into my own room, across the passage from the parlor, sacrosanct to me, my books and my belongings.

Is it not sacrosanct and holy within and without; and yet, at the same time, is it not a huge and palpable absurdity?

Let them establish your fundamental rights by a sacrosanct declaration, and let them pass the parts of the Constitution you have approved.

These lawns, it may be noted, are sacrosanct, not to be profaned by the foot of anyone but a Fellow of the College itself.

Bats especially are held to be the abode of the souls of the dead, and to some races they are sacrosanct for this reason.

Almost anybody of good character could qualify as a priest with due training, and there was little of the sacrosanct about the usual priestly office.

Accordingly, he was an elderly man in the eighties and early nineties when golden keys began to open the doors of the most sacrosanct circles.

After having exercised its veto in vain, his family absolutely closed its doors to its erring member who had set aside its sacrosanct authority.

The attempt to improve upon the methods of our fathers is tolerated in the worlds of science, medicine, and commerce, the innate conservatism of government is sacrosanct.

Every one knew that the sacrosanct rights of the land would be respected, but it was just as good, they said, to be ready for every event.

There still gathers around the state an odor of sanctity; and in minds that have a turn for abstraction it is apt to take shape as a sacrosanct objective reality.

The poetry, fiction and drama of the three Northern nations had become stagnant with commonplace and conventional matter, lumbered with the recognized, inevitable and sacrosanct forms of composition.

I fancied that she had had a troubled night and had repaired to this sacrosanct environment early in the morning to purge herself of her sins and to ask forgiveness.

Every effort was to be made to prevent him from getting into his mind a notion that existing institutions were sacrosanct, and that resistance to all change was a sacred and patriotic duty.

It was not, however, an easy task to do away with all these things, for they had been held sacrosanct, so that to set them at defiance was but to brave the public opinion of the time.