sacrosanctity
- a word derived from sacrosanct.
Example Sentences
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It’s hard not to wonder if the argument is really about the technique or the sacrosanctity of DNA.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2014
The suggestion is not on the face of it paradoxical, but it will be rank heresy to those who blame the public for not bowing down before the sacrosanctity of the "serious" author.
From Personality in Literature by Scott-James, Rolfe Arnold
We confess ourselves unable to follow this transfer of the superstition of sacrosanctity from a king to a chamber.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre by Morley, John
But my boyish appreciation of the Bishop's mundane qualities was equaled by my faith in the sacrosanctity of his office.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
In the same year Octavian was granted the tribunician sacrosanctity and the right to sit on the tribune’s bench in the Senate.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly