sanctitude

[Lat. sanctitudo, from sanctus = holy, Italian santitudine.] Holine , sanctity, sacredne . "The sanctitude which Macan's laws ordain." Brooke: Jerusalem Delivered , bk. ii. săńc-ti-ty, s. [O. Fr. sanctité; French sainteté ; Ital. sant ità ; Lat. sanctitas inviolability, sacredne , sanctity, from sanctus =sacred.] 1. The quality or state of being sacred; sacred ne ; state of consecration to the service of God. 2. Sacredne , solemnity, inviolability; as, the sanctity of an oath. 3. Holine , moral purity, saintline , godline . "To improve us in piety and virtue, which together make up true sanctity or holine ." - Secker : Sermons, vol. iii., ser. 1. *4. A saint; a holy person or being; a holy object of any kind. "About him all the sanctities of heav'n Stood thick." Milton: P. L., iii. 60. 3544 săńc-tum, s. [Lat.nent. sing. of sanctus =holy.] A sacred place. Used colloquially for a private retreat, a room. "When he had first violated that sanctum."- Hawley Smart: Struck Down , ch. xi.