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sanctity|ˈsæŋktɪtɪ|
Forms: 4–5 saunctite, sauntite, saintite, 6 sainctite, santytie, 6–7 sanctitie, 7– sanctity.
[a. OF. saint-, saincteté, -ité, mod.F. sainteté (= Prov. sanctitat, sanctetat, Catal. santetad, Sp. santitad, Pg. santidade, It. santità, -ade, -ate), ad. L. sanctitās, -tātem, f. sancti-, sanctus holy: see -ity.]
1. Holiness of life, saintliness. odour of sanctity: see odour 5.
The phr. sanctity of manners was common in the 18th c.
c1394P. Pl. Crede 105 Of all men opon mold we Menures most scheweþ Þe pure Apostells life wiþ penance on erþe, And suen hem in saunctite & suffren well harde. a1400Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 54/98 Heil temple of grace most, Temple of Sauntite [templum sanctitatis]. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 201 b, For otherwyse myght God neuer be conceyued than in purite & sanctite. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 357/2 But woulde God they would ones rather folow him truely in faith & good workes, then in simulacion of like santytie with their holy salutacions. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. iv. 14 His kissing is as ful of sanctitie, As the touch of holy bread. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle, etc. (1871) 141 Puritanes..by whose apparant shew Of sanctity doe greatest evils grow. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvi. 148 From seeing the Extraordinary sanctity of his life. 1686tr. Bouhours' St. Ignatius vi. 402 Illustrious for his Saintity, his Miracles, and for his Zeal. 1712Addison Spect. No. 349 ⁋8 One who does not resemble him [Sir T. More] as well in the Chearfulness of his Temper, as in the Sanctity of Life and Manners. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 116 The master of the pack Cries ― Well done, saint! and claps him on the back. Is this the path of sanctity? Is this To stand a way-mark in the road to bliss? 1784― Task iii. 260 Fam'd For sanctity of manners undefil'd. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 216 A few of them [bishops] were men of eminent sanctity. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 697 He committed this base action with all the forms of sanctity. 1877Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. iii. 34 Alexander had no liking for Becket..and had no belief in the lately assumed airs of sanctity.
personified.1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 23 In pure white Robes Like very sanctity she did approach My Cabine.
b. pl.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. ii. 21 The very Opener, and Intelligencer, Betweene the Grace, the Sanctities of Heauen, And our dull workings. 1820Lamb Elia Ser. i. Oxford in Vac., The coalition of the better Jude with Simon ― clubbing (as it were) their sanctities together, to make up one poor gaudy-day between them. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Relig. Wks. (Bohn) II. 96 The priest translated the..sanctities of the old hagiology into English virtues.
c. The rank of a (canonized) saint. rare.
1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. ii. VI. 418 Saints at length multiplying thus beyond measure, the Pope assumed the prerogative of advancing to the successive ranks of Beatitude and Sanctity.
2. The quality of being sacred or hallowed; sacredness, claim to (religious) reverence; inviolability.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iv. 395 This youth that you see heere, I snatch'd one halfe out of the iawes of death, Releeu'd him with such sanctitie of loue. 1611Bible 2 Macc. iii. 12 The maiestie and inuiolable sanctitie of the Temple, honoured ouer all the world. 1665Dryden & Howard Ind. Queen iii. i, Princes are sacred. Zemp. True, whilst they are free; But Power once lost, farewel their Sanctity. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 487 On she came, Led by her Heav'nly Maker, though unseen, And guided by his voice, nor uninformd Of nuptial Sanctitie and marriage Rites. 1757Burke Abridgm. Eng. Hist. Wks. X. 216 The idea of sanctity, which the Britains, by a long course of hereditary reverence, had annexed to that island. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 211 It [the Ganges] is not only esteemed by the Indians for the depth, and pureness of its stream, but for a supposed sanctity which they believe to be in its waters. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Imperf. Sympathies, His affirmations have the sanctity of an oath. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. v. (1858) 240 Gerizim, the oldest sanctuary in Palestine, retained its sanctity to the end. 1865Lubbock Preh. Times 52 Stonehenge was at one time a spot of great sanctity. 1888D. C. Murray Weaker Vessel I. xiii. 208 We have grown quite accustomed nowadays to the invasion of what used to be called the sanctity of private life.
b. pl. Sacred obligations, feelings, etc.; also quasi-concr., objects possessing sanctity.
1808Wordsw. White Doe v. 1295 Bear it to Bolton Priory, And lay it on Saint Mary's shrine; To wither in the sun and breeze 'Mid those decaying sanctities. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. iv. xvi. (1876) 210 Christian love which dreads to tamper with the sanctities of a brother's conscience. a1890Church Oxf. Movemt. iii. (1891) 41 He saw in it [Milton's poetry] only an intrusion into the most sacred of sanctities. 1894H. Drummond Ascent Man 330 Woman completes her destiny by occupying herself with the industries and sanctities of the home.
3. = holiness 2. rare.
1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. vii. (1821) 314 The petition to the Popes sanctitie. 1897Daily Record 21 Sept. 5/1 An encyclical from the Armenian Patriarch was read, in which his Sanctity exhorts the faithful to continue faithful to the Sultan. |