sanctity.

The quality of being holy or treated as sacred and deserving special respect.

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Words that belong together

• sanctity of a shrine
• sanctity of life

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The villagers believed the sanctity of the grove survived the ruined chapel.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.