(a.) Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.
(a.) Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history.
(a.) Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
(a.) Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
(a.) Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; -- with to.
(a.) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.
Example Sentences:
(1) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
(2) He sought only to help the Syrian people and I ask you for all that is sacred to help us and allow him to return home safely to those he loves and those who love him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Cantlie in Syria in 2012.
(3) My Paul Nuttalls routine has floated back up the U-bend | Stewart Lee Read more Nuttall told Marr that “nothing should be a sacred cow in British politics.
(4) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
(5) 'If you meet, you drink …' Thus introduced to intoxicating liquors under auspices both secular and sacred, the offering of alms for oblivion I took to be the custom of the country in which I had been born.
(6) The Bernabéu blockade was dismantled, by necessity, in favour of an approach far closer the sacred Real tradition.
(7) Money should not shape the outcome; this sacred and ancient landscape is irreplaceable and unique for so many reasons, we cannot afford to get this wrong.
(8) Many in Khomeini’s inner circle opposed making peace, arguing that the “sacred defence” had to continue until Saddam’s rule collapsed.
(9) It is a sacred moment, and you feel blessed merely to have witnessed it.
(10) In short, Bamako remains uneasy, and the "sacred union" of the last few days can only be temporary.
(11) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(12) McLaughlin, the daughter of LaDonna Brave Bull Allard , a Standing Rock Sioux tribe member and founder of the Sacred Stone camp , is one of hundreds of women who have led the growing movement to stop the $3.7bn project threatening their land and culture .
(13) We concluded that the sacU gene does not affect sacB expression at the level of secretion but acts on a target within sacR.
(14) Faces of the North Dakota pipeline protest: 'Sacred land is who we are' Read more When I asked that question, I was thinking about what I heard from climate activist and environmental lawyer Carolyn Raffensperger, who had spent time at the camp earlier and has a long history in the area.
(15) Druids and New Age followers still claim the site as their sacred place.
(16) The performances come after the intended release on 24 September of the new LP, which is Sting's first album of original material since 2003's Sacred Love.
(17) But what is fundamental, sacred even, is the audience.
(18) The only thing she wouldn't do was We Shall Overcome, too sacred to perform on a whim she tells me when I meet her later, besides which - and here she giggles - "we probably won't overcome.
(19) Frustrated not over economics but “sacred rights”, they were willing to sacrifice “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” against the world’s mightiest empire.
(20) It’s a great tragedy.” All Yazidi celebrations, such as weddings and the party-like annual pilgrimage to their sacred temple, Lalish, have been put on hold.
Sacrilege
Definition:
(n.) The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.
Example Sentences:
(1) The organisation, whose name means "non-Islamic education is sacrilege", is fighting to impose a strict interpretation of sharia law across Africa's most populous country.
(2) Devout Muslims consider it a sacrilege for infidels to depose a Muslim tyrant and occupy Muslim lands — no matter how well intentioned the infidels or malevolent the tyrant.
(3) Responsible for close to 200 deaths so far this year, Boko Haram, whose name means "Non-Islamic Education is sacrilege", wants to extend sharia law – already in place in some northern states – across Nigeria's 160 million-strong population, which is evenly split between Muslim and Christian.
(4) Boko Haram, whose name means "western education is sacrilege" in Hausa, wants to implement strict Sharia law and avenge the deaths of Muslims in communal violence across Nigeria , a multi-ethnic nation of more than 160 million people split largely into a Christian south and Muslim north.
(5) Boko Haram, which means "western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria's north, wants to implement strict sharia law and avenge the deaths of Muslims in communal violence across Nigeria , a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people split largely into a Christian south and Muslim north.
(6) Furthermore, some people seem to think that hip-hop is supposed to be a serious thing and treating it humorously is sacrilege.
(7) Madonna review – mistress of sex, sacrilege and stairs Read more Bishop Dunn’s condemnation followed a complaint made by the archbishop of Singapore when the Rebel Heart tour stopped there last month.
(8) Critics regard the very suggestion that there is a way to take CO2 out of the air, reversing fossil-fuel pollution, as sacrilege.
(9) Boko Haram, whose name means "western education is sacrilege", is responsible for at least 510 killings last year alone, according to Associated Press.
(10) But dropping a bomb on a football stadium … sacrilege!
(11) Whisky, you have to wait years.” He fetched coffee – “Sacrilege, really, but there are times when only caffeine will do” – followed by a glass of the seasonal brew (Santa Paws; made with plums, dates, mixed fruit and a hint of star anise; unexpectedly drinkable).
(12) "It seems inadmissible that an international cultural evening, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary film-makers, is used by police to apprehend him," the directors said as they decried the sacrilege.
(13) Some critics question whether a six-minute horse dance to music is really sport but dressage lovers pour scorn on such sacrilege.
(14) It's freezing Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new Sacrilege video , features Lily Cole copulating with an entire town: men, women in stockings, a vicar, all the usual suspects.
(15) We've been accused of sacrilege, of displaying a certain amount of brass neck in reworking something so revered as The Ladykillers.
(16) The table on which it was signed is locked away in a storeroom at Belfast City Hall, having been rescued from council workmen who committed the near sacrilege of mixing cement on it.
(17) There were people who sought to "justify and downplay this sacrilege", he said.
(18) Since glorious Technicolor, pretty much, the idea of a woman with wit has been cinematic sacrilege.
(19) As acts of sacrilege in South Africa go, it's hard to beat.