Sacred Writ

noun

1. Scripture.

Example Sentences

While still treated as sacred writ, the constitution no longer described the nation’s existing system of governance.

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There is a sacred writ of intelligence officers never to get involved in creating policy.

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As Rabbi Falcon puts it, sacred writ contains passages of universal, eternal importance as well as statements that responded to particular historical circumstances, like the needs of a nomadic people in the distant past.

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The donor’s wishes are a sacred writ that allows for the survival and enlargement of the public’s access to art.

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In proof of the antiquity of this art, mention is made of it in many places in sacred writ.

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