sacred
IPA: sˈeɪkrʌd
adjective
- Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.
- Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular
- Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.
- Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
- Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
- (followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted
- (archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.
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Examples of "sacred" in Sentences
- In Africa, tusk is very sacred.
- The sacred can easily be sacrosanct.
- The church was sacred to the Baptists.
- The idea of the sacred home is absent.
- The sign of the sacred are all pragmatic.
- The Buyruk is the sacred book of the Shabak.
- The faun is considered to be sacred by the people.
- It is the intersection of the Sacred and Secular orders.
- A sacrilege is the irreverent treatment of sacred things.
- The cathedral of the diocese is the church of Sacred Heart in Pekhon.
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