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sacrosanct|ˈsækrəʊsæŋkt, ˈseɪkrəʊ-|
Also 7 -sainct, sant, sackersaint.
[ad. L. sacrōsanctus, properly two words, sacrō abl. of sacrum sacred rite (neut. of sacer sacred) and sanctus pa. pple. of sancīre to render holy or inviolable. Cf. F. sacrosaint, earlier -sainct (whence some 17th c. Eng. forms), Sp., Pg. sacrosanto, It. sacro-, sagrosanto.]
Of persons and things, esp. obligations, laws, etc.: Secured by a religious sanction from violation, infringement, or encroachment; inviolable, sacred.
1601Holland Pliny I. 178 Armed as he was with his sacrosanct and inuiolable authoritie. 1603― Plutarch's Mor. 1332 Which [Isles] he found to have very few inhabitants, and those all were by the Britaines, held for sacro⁓sainct and inviolable. 1637Heylin Answ. Burton 80 Perhaps you thinke, because Mass. Prinne is of a factious Tribunitian spirit, he must be Sacrosanct and uncontrolable. 1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 291 What confederacy can be imagined more noble, more sacrosant, than that between Man and Wife? 1787Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 331 Let them establish your fundamental rights by a sacrosanct declaration. 1871Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. 270 Truth, which alone of words is essentially divine and sacrosanct. 1891C. E. Norton Dante's Purgat. xxix. 184 O Virgins sacrosanct. 1895Sala Life & Adv. II. lvi. 327 Beyond this sacrosanct city the railway was only available for about fifty miles.
transf.1880World 16 June, When the persons of hares and rabbits have ceased to be sacrosanct, what guarantee of inviolability is there for the grouse?
Hence † sacrosanctified, † sacrosanctious adjs. = sacrosanct; sacrosanctness = next.
1621Quarles Argalus & P. (1678) 57 Where plighted faith, and Sacro-sanctious vow Hath given possession, dispossess not thou. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. ii. 28 The Sacro sanctified Domicile of your Celestial Brain. 1876Cartwright Jesuits 206 The Pontifical utterances of which the dogmatic sacrosanctness is open to no doubt. |