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sanctitude
[ sangk-ti-tood, -tyood ]
noun
- holiness; saintliness; sanctity.
sanctitude
/ ˈæŋɪˌː /
noun
- saintliness; holiness
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ·Գt·ٳܻ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sanctitude1
Example Sentences
Each new suit is a chance at creation, of moving toward sanctitude.
Their physical delineation is to be accommodated by the imagination of the reader to this long catalogue of moral qualities,--nobility, honour, majesty, lordliness, worth, divinity, glory, brightness, truth, wisdom, sanctitude, severity, and purity.
This rare tablet doth include Poverty with sanctitude.
Similarly, the English law, always so careful of domestic sanctitude in women, provided that a wife who killed her husband should be dragged by a horse to the place of execution and burnt alive.
My wine gone too!—Ye lubbers, look about, And find the man that doth this villany, Or, by our sanctitude, you all shall die!—
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