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Reliquary vs Sanctum - What's the difference?

reliquary | sanctum |

As nouns the difference between reliquary and sanctum

is that reliquary is a container to hold or display religious relics while sanctum is a place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a private retreat or workroom a sacred or private place.

reliquary

English

Noun

(reliquaries)
  • A container to hold or display religious relics.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
    • , title=The Norwich Victims , chapter=4/1 citation , passage=“… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 13, author=Holland Cotter, title=To Bump Off Art as He Knew It, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside.}}
  • (label) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.

    • Related terms

    * relic

    External links

    * ("reliquary" on Wikipedia)

    sanctum

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a private retreat or workroom. A sacred or private place.
  • * 1848 , , Chapter 17.
    • For myself, I had no need to make any change; I should not be called upon to quit my sanctum' of the schoolroom; for a ' sanctum it was now become to me, -- "a very pleasant refuge in time of trouble."
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