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protosanctuary

protosanctuary noun: a precursor to a sanctuary.

Noun

protosanctuary (plural protosanctuaries)

  1. A precursor to a sanctuary.
    • Thus, Charlemagne's protopilgrimage brings him to a protosanctuary where the hero's body is already almost a statue,1991, Eugene Vance, “Style and value: From soldier to pilgrim in the Song of Roland”, in Yale French Studies
    • An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of...2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion

Forms of protosanctuary

pluralprotosanctuaries

Origin of protosanctuary

From proto- + sanctuary.

Questions about protosanctuary

What does protosanctuary mean?
Protosanctuary means a precursor to a sanctuary.
What part of speech is protosanctuary?
Protosanctuary is a noun.
What is the plural of protosanctuary?
The plural of protosanctuary is protosanctuaries.

Words near protosanctuary in the dictionary

  1. protorothyridids
  2. protos
  3. protosalt
  4. protosalts
  5. protosanctuaries
  6. protosanctuary
  7. protosatellite
  8. protosaturn
  9. protoscience
  10. protosciences
  11. protoscientific

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