WordNet
n. writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity [syn: sacred writing, religious writing, religious text]
Usage examples of "sacred text".
Ah, before me rises the possibility that what I had taken as Sacred Text was all along merely pulp fiction.
A horde, a swarm of fat, buzzing things that circle and dart about Jack Sawyer, in the dying light seeming almost illuminated, like the radiant pages of a sacred text.
Malachar did not know if such a warning was found in the sacred text of Osric's Visions.
To him is devoted the Gavatri, the most sacred text of the Vedas, according to the Hindus.
Thoroughness is also a mark of the old school, and Master Li would not rest until he extracted some large sheets of paper from his tunic and pressed them down firmly over every indentation of the sacred text.
The more he tried, the further the sacred text seemed to slip from the grasp of his memory.
My old teacher the Rebbe would have chomped at his beard to see me handling a sacred text bare-handed and familiar, but he was dead these seven years past, his weary heart faltering in his sleep.