sanctity
[noun]
Synonyms:
- sacredness, inviolability
- holiness, godliness, goodness, grace, piety

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Related Words: godliness, righteousness, uprightness

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sanc‧ti‧ty /ˈsæŋktəti, ˈsæŋktɪti/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: saincteté, from Latin sanctitas, from sanctus; ⇒ saint]

1. the sanctity of life/marriage etc the quality that makes life, marriage etc so important that it must be respected and preserved:
the sanctity of the Constitution

2. formal the holy or religious character of a person or place ⇒ sacred:
an aura of sanctity

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