sanctitude

[sangk-ti-tood, -tyood]

noun

1. holiness; saintliness; sanctity.

sanctitude

/ ˈsæŋktɪˌtjuːd /

noun

1. saintliness; holiness

Other Word Forms

• unsanctitude noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sanctitude¹

1400–50; late Middle English sanctitud < Latin sānctitūdō, equivalent to sāncti-, combining form of sānctus ( Sanctus + -tūdō -tude

Example Sentences

Each new suit is a chance at creation, of moving toward sanctitude.

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Their physical delineation is to be accommodated by the imagination of the reader to this long catalogue of moral qualities,--nobility, honour, majesty, lordliness, worth, divinity, glory, brightness, truth, wisdom, sanctitude, severity, and purity.

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This rare tablet doth include Poverty with sanctitude.

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Similarly, the English law, always so careful of domestic sanctitude in women, provided that a wife who killed her husband should be dragged by a horse to the place of execution and burnt alive.

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My wine gone too!—Ye lubbers, look about, And find the man that doth this villany, Or, by our sanctitude, you all shall die!—

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Related Words

• cleanliness