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• The best mask for moral heresy is one of pretended sanctity.2012, Anton LaVey, Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right. From the entry wiseling
• Is it because we have cast off the delusion of human sanctity?2005, Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry decivilize
• Bible toters tend to carry the book around as a symbol of sanctity.2004, Steve Ward, Holy Enigma!, page 31. From the entry toter
• The sanctity of the home, by which they mean the couple, is inviolate.1987 February 8, Robert Storen, “On Being Cozy with Mister Right”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 29, page 12. From the entry inviolate
• Security in Gondar depended largely on the sanctity of the echage’s quarter as a place of asylum.1972, Donald Crummey, Priests and Politicians. From the entry echage
• But at first I thought Mr Colville was ascribing to me an air of sanctity.1930, Adrian Bell, Corduroy, Faber and Faber. From the entry wholly
• Here, at the church door, where I might have expected an odour of sanctity, I sensed only evil.2000, Jonathan Aycliffe [pseudonym; Denis MacEoin], chapter 5, in A Shadow on the Wall, Sutton, Surrey; New York, N.Y.: Severn House…. From the entry odour of sanctity
• Why did they choose the death day of a Roman priest to honor the joy and sanctity of hetero bonding?1980 February 16, Kore J. Sapphire, “The Politics of Valentines”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, page 10. From the entry Lupercalia
• This applies even to the festivals, because it is a “weekdaily habit” which disregards their sanctity; see Rashi, Betza 25a.1975, Immanuel Jakobovits, Jewish Medical Ethics: A Comparative and Historical Study of the Jewish Religious Attitude to Medicine and Its…. From the entry weekdaily
• Hence monkeys near Fishtown, snakes at Whydah, and crocodiles near Dix Cove live in the odour of sanctity."1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 287. From the entry odor
• However the century-long duel between Mamluks and Mongols was over and once again the magneticism of Jerusalem's sanctity drew the world back.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 334. From the entry magneticism
• Weyrich was a nondeviator in his unswerving faith in small government, free-market economics, the right to life and the sanctity of the family.2008 December 19, Bruce Weber, “Paul Weyrich, 66, a Conservative Strategist, Dies”, in New York Times. From the entry nondeviator
• And at the end of this episode, the killing of Remus underlined the sanctity of the city's boundary, dearer than any brother.1998, Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price, “The Place of Religion: Rome in the Early Empire”, in Religions of Rome, volume 1 (A History)…. From the entry pomerium
• As the odor of sanctity indicated the triumph of spiritual virtue over physical corruption, it was often considered able to heal physical ills.1998, Constance Classen, “The Breath of God: Sacred Histories of Scent”, in The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic…. From the entry odour of sanctity
• The pharaoh ant, Monomorium pharaonis, is one of the most persistent and pestiferous ants to invade the sanctity of hearth and home.1989, May Berenbaum, Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers, page 19. From the entry pharaoh ant
• This is the law of "enantiodromia" whereby every extreme turns into its opposite, whereby Satanism is actually created by Puritanism and deviltry by sanctity.1954, Alan W. Watts, chapter VII, in Myth and Ritual in Christianity, New York: Grove Press, published 1960, page 223. From the entry deviltry
• However, if these guys’ moral values were consistent regarding the basic sanctity of life, they wouldn’t keep defunding the social safety nets that protect children after birth.2022 December 20, Mike Beebe, “[Letters to the Editor] Men keep failing women”, in Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Peterborough, N.H., page…. From the entry less than
• The church feared that this delay jeopardized the sanctity of Easter (which was celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox).2015, Brian A. Pavlac, “Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815”, in A Concise Survey of Western Civilization…. From the entry vernal
• A weapon does not, of necessity, owe its sanctity to a god, but a case is cited in which a god grew out of a weapon.1918, Eli Mayer, War and Religion: A Sociological Study (War), ZXRqwkKm1WEC. From the entry hoplolatry
• She has taken a prominent part in all reform movements, the abolition of slavery, the obliviation of the rum power and guarding the sanctity of the Christian Sabbath, etc.1905, Methodist Protestant Church. Ohio Conference, Official Minutes. From the entry obliviation

Meaning of sanctity

1. noun Holiness of life or disposition; saintliness.
2. noun The condition of being considered sacred; inviolability.
3. noun Something considered sacred.

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How do you use sanctity in a sentence?

Sanctity is used as a noun. For example: “The best mask for moral heresy is one of pretended sanctity.”

What is a short sentence with sanctity?

“The best mask for moral heresy is one of pretended sanctity.”

What does sanctity mean?

Sanctity means holiness of life or disposition; saintliness.