| 单词 | to violate or break sanctuary |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto violate or break sanctuary a. Immunity from punishment and the ordinary operations of the law secured by taking refuge in a sanctuary (sense 5); the right or privilege of affording such shelter; shelter, refuge, protection as afforded by a church, etc. Also privilege of sanctuary. †to keep sanctuary: to resort to a sanctuary for protection. to violate or break sanctuary: to violate the privilege or right of a sanctuary or place of refuge. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > inviolable refuge, sanctuary, or asylum sanctuaryc1380 sentry1590 asylum1725 bast1856 society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > right of asylum > immunity of sanctuary sanctuaryc1380 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > inviolable refuge, sanctuary, or asylum > immunity secured by church-sokeneOE sanctuaryc1380 franchisec1425 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > inviolable refuge, sanctuary, or asylum > right of affording sanctuaryc1380 privilegea1387 franchisec1425 c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 294 Þei chalengen fraunchise and privylegie in many grete chirchis, þat wikid men..þere schullen dwelle in seyntewarie, and no man empeche hem bi processe of lawe. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 280 Þat þefte & raueynen & mansleyng & robberie be not meyntened in seyntiwarye vnder colour of priuylegie. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 167 He is like a fugitif that rennythe to seyntwarye For drede of hangyng. 1464 Coventry Leet Bk. 322 The parker & oþer Officers of Cheylesmore pretendyng..that eny persones owed not to be arrested there, seying that Cheylesmore was seyntwary. 1471 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 441 The Erle off Oxenffordys bretheryn be goon owt off sceyntewarye. 1509 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Court of Requests (1898) 12 Your pore orator..neuyr dare come oute off seyntory. 1543 More's Hist. Richard III in Chron. J. Hardyng f. xliiiiv Yt the kynges brother should be fayne to kepe sanctuary. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1079/1 This woman..fled in the night to Westminster for sanctuarie. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. i. 42 God in heauen forbid We should infringe the holy priuiledge Of blessed sanctuary . View more context for this quotation 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. i. 47 You breake not sanctuary in seazing him [the Dk. of York] . View more context for this quotation 1623–4 Act 21 Jas. I c. 28 §7 And be it alsoe enacted..That no Sanctuarie or Priviledge of Sanctuary shalbe hereafter admitted or allowed in any case. a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) iii. ii. 58 Theft rapine: contempt off religion and breach off sanctury. 1711 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ III. viii. x. 290 Both by general Custom and Law under the Christian Emperors, every Church was invested with the Privilege of an Asylum, or Place of Sanctuary and Refuge in certain Cases. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xx. 223 The ancient privilege of sanctuary was transferred to the Christian temples. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. v. 102 Get into Whitefriars or somewhere, for sanctuary and concealment, till you can make friends or quit the city. 1831 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xiv Alsatia..possessing certain privileges of sanctuary, became for that reason a nest of..mischievous characters. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 232 Mine enemies Pursue me, but, O peaceful Sisterhood, Receive, and yield me sanctuary. 1871 R. W. Dale Ten Commandm. vi. 148 The altar of God itself was to be no sanctuary for..an actual murderer. 1898 J. T. Fowler Durham Cathedral 63 Those who sought sanctuary fled to the church and knocked. < as lemmas |
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