Sanctum vs Asylum - What's the difference?
sanctum | asylum |
A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a private retreat or workroom. A sacred or private place.
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A place of safety.
The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
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As nouns the difference between sanctum and asylum
is that sanctum is a place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a private retreat or workroom a sacred or private place while asylum is a place of safety.sanctum
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(en noun)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."
asylum
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(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum , it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.