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sanctities

sanctities is the plural of sanctity.

Meaning of sanctity

Noun

sanctity (countable and uncountable, plural sanctities)

  1. (uncountable) Holiness of life or disposition; saintliness
  2. (uncountable) The condition of being considered sacred; inviolability
  3. (countable) Something considered sacred.
    • Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?1776, Jeremy Bentham, “A Short Review of the Declaration”, in John Lind, An Anſwer to the Declaration of the American Congress, London: Thomas Cadell, page 121

Questions about sanctities

What is sanctities the plural of?
Sanctities is the plural of sanctity.

Words near sanctities in the dictionary

  1. sanctionists
  2. sanctionless
  3. sanctionlessness
  4. sanctionment
  5. sanctions
  6. sanctities
  7. sanctitude
  8. sanctitudes
  9. sanctity
  10. Sancton
  11. Sanctons

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