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   sacred

   /ˈseɪkrɪd/

   adjective

   • 1. connected with God or a god or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration: "sacred rites" Similar holyhallowedblessedblestconsecratedsanctifieddedicatedveneratedreveredOpposite unconsecratedcursed
   • ▪ religious rather than secular: "sacred music" Similar religiousspiritualdevotionalchurchchurchlyecclesiasticalOpposite secularprofane
   • ▪ (of writing or text) embodying the laws or doctrines of a religion: "a sacred Hindu text"
   • ▪ regarded with great respect and reverence by a particular religion, group, or individual: "cows are sacred and the eating of beef is taboo"
   • ▪ regarded as too valuable to be interfered with; sacrosanct: "a profit-oriented public to whom nothing is sacred" Similar sacrosanctinviolableinviolateunimpeachableinvulnerableuntouchableinalienableprotecteddefendedsecuresafeunthreatened

   Word Origin late Middle English: past participle of archaic sacre ‘consecrate’, from Old French sacrer, from Latin sacrare, from sacer, sacr- ‘holy’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sacredly adverb
   • 2. sacredness noun

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