(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.
Sacrosanct
Definition:
(a.) Sacred; inviolable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus soaps are sacrosanct, Murderland with Robbie Coltrane is in, but Al Murray's Pub Landlord is definitely out, because it "goes down like a cup of cold sick in Scotland, a cockney landlord shouting at an audience".
(2) The NSA considers its ability to search for Americans' data through its massive collections of email, phone, text and other communications content a critical measure to discover terrorists and a sacrosanct prerogative.
(3) Many firms already make profits from providing services to schools, such as maintaining buildings and handling personnel matters, but until now the classroom itself has been sacrosanct.
(4) In my day, the reputation of the bank was sacrosanct.
(5) Until recently, the role of scientists in society has been considered sacrosanct.
(6) In the many internal rows on the subject, IDS argued that too much of the pain of austerity was being inflicted on the working-age poor, while pensioner benefits were treated as sacrosanct even when perks such as the free TV licence and winter fuel payments went to wealthy oldsters.
(7) I believe that the right to refuse a client is universal and sacrosanct; this right is the essential difference between a free sex worker and a coerced one.
(8) Elements of the left and the right agree that individual freedom should be sacrosanct, and that people should be allowed to make their own choices in life.
(9) One of the debates that has been reignited in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, principally among high school students, is why, if freedom of speech is so sacrosanct, the same right to offend was not granted to Dieudonné.
(10) In this paper I discuss the origins of the view that scientists and geneticists in particular, are sacrosanct.
(11) The paper's legal advice was that it could do no more than publish a front-page story saying it had been prevented from publishing the proceedings of parliament – a sacrosanct right since the 18th-century.
(12) No species has a sacrosanct right to everlasting life and surely it would be better to die out while living free rather than appear in this endless circus.
(13) We suggested that if we could prove to the court's satisfaction that the presence of the movement was demonstrably and effectively relevant to preventing an assault on the very rights and needs on the basis of which authorities are licensed to curtail otherwise sacrosanct rights such as the right to protest, then clearly that should be key to ascertaining on which side of this legal dispute the most "pressing social need" lay.
(14) They teach only four lessons daily, and their professional autonomy is sacrosanct.
(15) The passivity exhibited by Eulex has confirmed the apparent sacrosanctity of the elite instead, and it has reinforced what has aptly been called Kosovo’s “glass ceiling of accountability”.
(16) Vestager pushed through swingeing cuts to the country’s once-sacrosanct unemployment and early retirement benefits while economic affairs minister in the unstable three-party leftist coalition headed by the former Social Democrat prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
(17) We are particularly grateful for Liberty’s efforts in spearheading this litigation and making it possible for this information to be brought to light.” James Welch, legal director for Liberty, said: “Last year it was revealed that GCHQ were eavesdropping on sacrosanct lawyer-client conversations.
(18) 3.46pm GMT Kelly says the right to bear arms is sacrosanct, but the right does not extend to criminals, terrorists and the mentally ill. "Gabby and I are pro-gun ownership.
(19) Our view is that the 3pm window should remain sacrosanct and we’ve got serious reservations about increasing the amount of football on television,” said the FSF chairman, Malcolm Clarke.
(20) Legally, the handgun has been awarded sacrosanct status.