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Unassailable vs Sacrosanct - What's the difference?

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Unassailable is a related term of sacrosanct.


As adjectives the difference between unassailable and sacrosanct

is that unassailable is secure against attack; impregnable while sacrosanct is beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.

unassailable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • secure against attack; impregnable
  • (by extension) undeniable, incontestable or incontrovertible
    • She won the debate with her unassailable logic.

    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