sanctum
noun
a sacred or holy place.
sancta
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pluralof sanctum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The perfume, Lavs, is a concentrated version of the one he made to spritz on the papal garments before they were delivered to the Vatican’s inner sancta.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
Bunhill Fields has long fascinated historians and romantics alike and is considered the terra sancta of English Nonconformity.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2011
On an indifferently argued staff paper he scribbles: "0 sancta sim-plicitas."
From Time Magazine Archive
According to individual taste, one can greet it with a hosannah, a miserere nobis or a sancta simplicitas.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the sentence of Jerome of Prague it uses the phrase “Hæc sancta synodus Constantiensis in causa inquisitionis hæreticæ pravitatis per eamdem sanctum synodem mota.”
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
