sanctity
pronunciation
How to pronounce sanctity in British English:
UK [ˈsæŋktəti]
How to pronounce sanctity in American English:
US [ˈsæŋktɪti]
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- Noun:
- the quality of being holy
Word Origin
- sanctity
- sanctity: [14] Latin sanctus ‘holy’ (source of English saint) originated as the past participle of sancīre ‘consecrate’, a verb derived from the same base that produced sacer ‘sacred’ (source of English sacred, sacrifice, etc). Amongst its derivatives to have reached English are sanctify [14], sanctimonious [17], sanctity, sanctuary [14], and sanctum [16]. And its stem sanctformed the basis of the Latin noun sanctiō ‘ordaining of something as sacred or inviolable’, hence more broadly a ‘decree, sanction’, from which English gets sanction [16].=> sacred, saint
- sanctity (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French sanctete (Modern French sainteté), from Latin sanctitatem (nominative sanctitas) "holiness, sacredness," from sanctus "holy" (see saint (n.)).
Example
- 1. Nor would the sanctity of the debt be guaranteed .
- 2. Democrats believe equally passionately in the sanctity of health-care and pension schemes for the old .
- 3. Party organizations at all levels and all party members shall safeguard the sanctity of the party emblem and flag .
- 4. This is what happened in the 1920s when germany 's economy was wrecked by the rigid ideology of the sanctity of debt .
- 5. Indeed , the ruling is likely to worry firms of all kinds in that it appears to undermine the sanctity of contracts in general .