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Sacrosanct vs Sanctum - What's the difference?

sacrosanct | sanctum |

As an adjective sacrosanct

is beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.

As a noun sanctum is

a place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a private retreat or workroom a sacred or private place.

sacrosanct

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=August 14 , author=Kenneth R. Harney , title=Homeowner mortgage write-off may be in jeopardy , work=Los Angeles Times citation , page= , passage=After decades of being considered politically sacrosanct , why are homeowner mortgage write-offs suddenly on the chopping block?}}
  • sacred.
    • ("sacrosanct on Wikiquote")

    References

    * * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd edition, 1989

    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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