sacrosanct

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14
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17
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10
Pronunciation
/ˈsæk.ɹoʊˌsæŋkt/(US)

Definition of sacrosanct

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (figuratively)Beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.
    “It will be noted that pre-grouping routes between London and Scotland are no longer sacrosanct—for example, Glasgow St. Enoch trains no longer run necessarily to St. Pancras.”
    “Closer investigation revealed these as millions of elaborate crypts a few meters below the surface, left by a long-extinct spacefaring species called the zeioph. Many human universities wish to perform archeological excavations. Council law holds grave sites as sacrosanct, however, and the matter has been tied up in court for a decade.”
    “After decades of being considered politically sacrosanct, why are homeowner mortgage write-offs suddenly on the chopping block?”
    “The impeachment crisis is also a symptom of a country caught in a massive political estrangement that is tearing apart any sense of common patriotic purpose. It has exposed a political culture in which the facts – in this case, of the President’s actions – are no longer sacrosanct and that has been laced with a fog of misinformation by his allies.”
    “For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way.”
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adj

  1. (figuratively)Beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.
    “It will be noted that pre-grouping routes between London and Scotland are no longer sacrosanct—for example, Glasgow St. Enoch trains no longer run necessarily to St. Pancras.”
    “Closer investigation revealed these as millions of elaborate crypts a few meters below the surface, left by a long-extinct spacefaring species called the zeioph. Many human universities wish to perform archeological excavations. Council law holds grave sites as sacrosanct, however, and the matter has been tied up in court for a decade.”
    “After decades of being considered politically sacrosanct, why are homeowner mortgage write-offs suddenly on the chopping block?”
    “The impeachment crisis is also a symptom of a country caught in a massive political estrangement that is tearing apart any sense of common patriotic purpose. It has exposed a political culture in which the facts – in this case, of the President’s actions – are no longer sacrosanct and that has been laced with a fog of misinformation by his allies.”
    “For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way.”
  2. Sacred, very holy.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sacrōsānctus.

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