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sanctum
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sanctum is a holy site. Other uses of the term include: Sanctum (temple) , inner part of a temple where deities are present Sanctum (band) , a Swedish musical group Sanctum (film) , a 2011 3D action-thriller film Sanctum (game) , an online collectible ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a private retreat or workroom. A sacred or private place.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanctum \Sanc"tum\, n. [L., p. p. of sancire to consecrate.] A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum. Sanctum sanctorum [L.], the Holy of Holies; the most holy place, as in the Jewish temple. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a place of inviolable privacy; "he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go" [syn: sanctum sanctorum ] a sacred place of pilgrimage [syn: holy place , holy ] [also: sancta (pl)]
Usage examples of sanctum.
I regret that I have spent my life until now without knowing that a grimoire is a book of magic spells, or that an adytum is the inner sanctum of a temple.
There was an eavesdropper to all of the foregoing Conant, squatting behind his great desk in the vault, where he had his sanctum sanctorum, knew nothing of it.
Spiritum sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem: qui ex Patre Filioque procedit.
Let us leave this den of murder, and have a glass of our home-made frontignac in our own Sanctum.
He wondered if Bardo was in his sanctum now, perhaps rehearsing a sermon for the ceremony, perhaps swiving some bright-eyed godling whom he was personally instructing in the delights of submitting to the Way.
These occupants presently being limited to Gordian, Nimec, and Megan Breen, who had convened in this high-tech sanctum sanctorurn to see what they could make of Brazil.
Long before Madam Marsh had returned to her sanctum, Marian was seated under a laurestinus in the garden, nursing her new baby with the most affectionate solicitude.
Sanctum, and dispelling the habitual gloom of a College Hospitium, what chance would the sectarians of Wesley, or the infatuated followers even of that arch rhapsodist, Irving, have with the attractive eloquence and sound reasoning of true wit?
You sound like a sancta, speaking no word but that it has to do with the Matra ei Filho!
The Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto did not always agreeor so snippets of gossip saidbut in this they were united: stillborn children or infants who died were not worth mourning.
Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto, and even the lowliest initiatas and initiatos, but newly admitted to orders, who were nonetheless, because they served the Matra ei Filho, better than everyone else.
Matra ei Filho: His Grace the Duke, who gave order to the duchy, or their Honored Eminences the Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto, who gave order to the Holy Ecclesia, which claimed primacy over all the myriad smaller Sanctias and shrines scattered throughout the city and the duchy.
One day everyone in Tira Virte, possibly even the Premio Sancto and Premia Sancta, would do what he askedor toldthem to do.
White as her linen robe, the Premia Sancta kissed her fingertips, then pressed them to her heart in token tribute to the blessed Duchess Jesminia.
Serranos have been elevated quite enough, grazzo, with Zaragosa as Lord Limner, Caterin as Premia Sancta, and Gitanna in my bed!