sacrosanct
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9.1
- adjective
- /ˈsækrəˌsæŋkt/
- Formal
:
intocable
- I say that human life is sacrosanct.
- considered sacrosanct
- regarded as sacrosanct
- held sacrosanct
What I'm saying is, what I'm saying is we shouldn't lionize a person who tells douchey jokes on Twitter and say that's sacrosanct and you shouldn't criticize it.
- What I'm saying is, what I'm saying is we shouldn't lionize a person who tells douchey jokes on Twitter and say that's sacrosanct and you shouldn't criticize it.
- So in it broke the ultimate narrative taboo, you're a mother's love for her son is sacrosanct.
- And I feel like swear words and these kinds of sacrosanct words have play a part.
- And Roy Beatty comes in and says insects are specially sacrosanct.
Examples
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In some places, the first steps toward curbing once-sacrosanct public pensions are being taken.
Academic text (2010) -
Each of the few estates around it was of high station, indivisible, sacrosanct, and serene.
Fiction book (2001) -
Is the individual sacrosanct, or is the group?
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Nothing is sacrosanct that should come in the path of justice.
Academic text (2018) -
But there's nothing sacrosanct in culture in and of itself.
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Every age has violated some of those that were sacrosanct earlier.
Academic text (1996) -
To settle the Taiwan question and achieve national reunification - this is a sacrosanct mission of the entire Chinese people.
Academic text (1999) -
Third, at least one precedent suggests that state officials possess the courage and foresight to question supposedly sacrosanct entitlements.
Academic text (2002) -
Classical liberalism—the notion that the individual's autonomy is sacrosanct—was born and bred in Britain and the United States.
Academic text (1998) -
Many cultures consider their traditions to be sacrosanct and should be preserved without interference.
Synonyms
64
4.6
Kept only for one use or person
9
9.1
Cannot be taken away or given to another person
5
8.6
Too important or sacred to be broken
3
9.6
Not harmed or changed because people respect it
People treat something as officially important and the accepted standard
Antonyms
How Sacred
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sacrosanct comes from the Latin words sacer 'holy' and sanctus 'made holy', and you can see the same idea in sacred or sanctify. So something sacrosanct is treated as so important it is 'not to be touched' or changed.