Definition of Sanctuaries

1. Noun. (plural of sanctuary) ¹

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Definition of Sanctuaries

1. sanctuary [n] - See also: sanctuary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sanctuaries

sanctimoniously
sanctimoniousness
sanctimony
sanction
sanctionable
sanctionary
sanctionative
sanctioned
sanctioning
sanctionless
sanctions
sanctities
sanctitude
sanctitudes
sanctity
sanctuaries (current term)
sanctuarize
sanctuarized
sanctuarizes
sanctuarizing
sanctuary
sanctuarylike
sanctum
sanctum sanctorum
sanctum santorum
sanctums
sanctus
sanctus bell
sand
sand-art

Literary usage of Sanctuaries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Primitive Athens As Described by Thucydides by Jane Ellen Harrison (1906)
"There are sanctuaries in the citadel itself, those of other deities as well ... He does not desire to make any statement whatever about the sanctuaries of ..."

2. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"There are three kinds of sanctuaries. There is a sanctuary in Nicaragua where the commanding headquarters of the FMLN are located—the Radio Venceremos, ..."

3. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria, Voltaire, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1819)
"Of sanctuaries. ARE sanctuaries just? Is a convention between nations mutually to ... sanctuaries and impunity differ only in degree, and as the effect of ..."

4. Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works by Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1893)
"15) having himself visited the Magian sanctuaries in that country ; while in the western districts it may ..."

5. The Right of Sanctuary in England: A Study in Institutional History by Norman Maclaren Trenholme (1903)
"The frith stol probably existed in many of the English sanctuaries, for in name and use it was inseparably 1 Sanctuarium ..."

6. The Voyage of Sabra: An Ecological Cruise Through the Caribbean, with Extras by Michael L. Frankel (1990)
"And since 1975, seven additional marine sanctuaries have been designated protecting other outstanding marine areas. American boaters can regularly enjoy the ..."

7. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1911)
"THE sanctuaries AND SANCTUARY SEEKERS OF YORKSHIRE.1 By the Rzv. J. CHARLES COX ... With regard to chartered sanctuaries, the most memorable in all England, ..."

8. Primitive Athens As Described by Thucydides by Jane Ellen Harrison (1906)
"There are sanctuaries in the citadel itself, those of other deities as well ... He does not desire to make any statement whatever about the sanctuaries of ..."

9. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"There are three kinds of sanctuaries. There is a sanctuary in Nicaragua where the commanding headquarters of the FMLN are located—the Radio Venceremos, ..."

10. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria, Voltaire, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1819)
"Of sanctuaries. ARE sanctuaries just? Is a convention between nations mutually to ... sanctuaries and impunity differ only in degree, and as the effect of ..."

11. Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works by Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1893)
"15) having himself visited the Magian sanctuaries in that country ; while in the western districts it may ..."

12. The Right of Sanctuary in England: A Study in Institutional History by Norman Maclaren Trenholme (1903)
"The frith stol probably existed in many of the English sanctuaries, for in name and use it was inseparably 1 Sanctuarium ..."

13. The Voyage of Sabra: An Ecological Cruise Through the Caribbean, with Extras by Michael L. Frankel (1990)
"And since 1975, seven additional marine sanctuaries have been designated protecting other outstanding marine areas. American boaters can regularly enjoy the ..."

14. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1911)
"THE sanctuaries AND SANCTUARY SEEKERS OF YORKSHIRE.1 By the Rzv. J. CHARLES COX ... With regard to chartered sanctuaries, the most memorable in all England, ..."

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