Sacred Writ

American  

noun

1. Scripture.

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Example Sentences

"He was renowned for religious wisdom, and notably learned in Sacred Writ."

From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner

Since I am thus insensibly engaged in Sacred Writ, I cannot forbear making an extract of several passages which I have always read with great delight in the book of Job. 

From Essays and Tales by Morley, Henry

We are informed by a contemporary record that the iconoclasts carefully abstained from trespassing, and confined themselves to an exhibition of those passages of Sacred Writ in which an idolatrous worship was prohibited.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

When Dr. Jeffries repeated to him the soothing words of Sacred Writ, "Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me," the dying statesman exclaimed, "Yes; that is what I want, Thy rod; Thy staff!"

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley

Yet if they still divert us with their rage, What may be hoped for in a better age, When not from Helicon's imagined spring, But Sacred Writ, we borrow what we sing?

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir