1the sanctity of life/marriage etcIMPORTANTthe quality that makes life, marriage etc so important that it must be respected and preserved 生命/婚姻等的神圣
the sanctity of the Constitution
宪法的无上尊严
Examples from the Corpus
the sanctity of life/marriage etc• What she experienced in her abusive marriage eventually forced her to re-examine Scripture concerning the sanctity of marriage and personhood.• This man who believed in the sanctity of life, its life, not hers.• The argumentbased on the sanctity of life is essentially a matter of religiousdogma.• Their outlook on the sanctity of marriage is usually stricter.
sanctity• Numerousmiracles were proof of his sanctity.• Monolithicnotions of sanctityreveal a startlingreliance on hierarchical thinking.• In the great temple of Osiris at Abydos the tangible sense of sanctity has often been noted.• As almost everyone except himself perfectly understood, these fasts were a ruthlessexploitation of the power of his own sanctity.• They re-affirmed the sanctity of the family, and the rights of parents and children in the home.• He was a Confucian and believed in the worship of spirits and the sanctity of the ancestral land.• What she experienced in her abusivemarriage eventually forced her to re-examine Scripture concerning the sanctity of marriage and personhood.• For she had learned how difficult it was to uphold the sanctity of human life without alienating women in trouble.• I will not violate the sanctity of that union!
Originsanctity
(1300-1400)Old Frenchsaincteté, from Latinsanctitas, from sanctus; → SAINT