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Definition of Sacrosanctity
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacrosanctity
Literary usage of Sacrosanctity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Their personal privileges and those of the aediles were renewed, while sacrosanctity
was attached to a body of men called ..."
2. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"If this were fact, the "sacrosanctity" of the tribunes would be ... and the "
sacrosanctity " of the plebeian officials became a part of the constitution. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"If this were fact, the "sacrosanctity" of the tribunes would be ...
and the "sacrosanctity" of the plebeian officials became a part of the constitution. ..."
4. The Future of Japan: With a Survey of Present Conditions by W. Petrie Watson (1907)
"Neither the individual nor the political party is capable at present of becoming
the major fact of State, and thereby of tearing the mask of sacrosanctity ..."
5. The Future of Japan: With a Survey of Present Conditions by W. Petrie Watson (1907)
"Neither the individual nor the political party is capable at present of becoming
the major fact of State, and thereby of tearing the mask of sacrosanctity ..."
6. In Old Ceylon by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"The Tooth- Relic—tremendous as is now its sacrosanctity, and has been for many
centuries—does not rank among the great original relics of Lanka, and cannot, ..."
7. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1898)
"... the sacrosanctity of the persons and the property of bishops, and, though this
is not so prominent, the supremacy of the bishop of Rome. ..."
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