Secrets vs Sacred - What's the difference?
secrets | sacred |
(secret)
* 1978 , John F. Desmond,
* 1999 , Constance Markey,
Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred' place; a '''sacred''' day; ' sacred service.
Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history.
Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; -- with to.
(archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.
(sacre)
As verbs the difference between secrets and sacred
is that secrets is (secret) while sacred is (sacre).As a noun secrets
is .As an adjective sacred is
set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred' place; a '''sacred''' day; ' sacred service.secrets
English
Noun
(head)Verb
(head)Still moment: essays on the art of Eudora Welty], [[w:Scarecrow_Press, Scarecrow Press], p. 90
- After examining it, he touches and stops the pendulum, takes away its key, poles the stick into the box and secrets it away as if it were a prize.
Calvino: a journey toward postmodernism], [[w:University_Press_of_Florida, University Press of Florida], p. 38
- But instead of surrendering the weapon to the needy Partisans as he originally promised, Pin secrets it away in a magical place in the forest [...]
Quotations
*Anagrams
* * ----sacred
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sacred, isacred, past participle of (etyl) sacren, .Adjective
(en adjective)- Smit with the love of sacred song. -.
- Such neighbor nearness to our sacred [royal] blood Should nothing privilege him.
- Poet and saint to thee alone were given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven. -Cowley.
- Secrets of marriage still are sacred held. -.
- A temple, sacred to the queen of love. -.
- But, to destruction sacred and devote. -.