Results for sacred

Definitions of sacred:

part of speech: adverb

Sacredly.

part of speech: adjective

Set apart for religious uses; as, a sacred edifice; pertaining to religion; as, sacred literature; consecrated; holy; not to be treated irreverently; as, he held his mother's memory sacred.

part of speech: adjective

Set apart or dedicated, esp. to God: made holy: proceeding from God: religious: entitled to respect or veneration: inviolable.

part of speech: adjective

Pert. to God, or to His worship; pert. to religion or religious uses; not profane; inviolable.

part of speech: noun

Sacredness.

Usage examples for sacred:

• These people think they have a right to every thing, however secret or sacred "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson", Thomas Jefferson

• It seemed a sacred thing. "Quiet Talks on Service", S. D. Gordon

• It may be that I shall be called on to preserve some other and still more sacred thing. "The Flying Legion", George Allan England

• The mother superior of the Sacred Heart Convent at Roehampton heard of it and asked me to stay there. "Fanny Goes to War", Pat Beauchamp