Sacred Writ

American  

noun

1. Scripture.

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Sacred Writ

As most of his historical subjects are from Sacred Writ, he never loses sight of those qualities which take them out of the page of every-day occurrences.

From Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. by John Burnet

But really with all due respect to Sacred Writ, I could never accept that serpent story without considerable salt.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

But the declaration of Sacred Writ is, "One event happeneth to all."

From Woman As She Should Be or, Agnes Wiltshire by Mary E. Herbert

We owe our grateful acknowledgments to Him who is, as he is frequently styled in Sacred Writ, 'The Lord of Hosts.'

From A Book of Autographs by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It destroys the Innocence of an indifferent Action, and gives an evil Action all possible Blackness and Horror, or in the emphatical Language of Sacred Writ, makes Sin exceeding sinful1.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison