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Example sentences for "sacred place"

  • It is also instructive to note that the narrator of this story finds himself called upon to explain, and, in a manner, to excuse the Asas for not punishing Hödur at once, the place where they were assembled being a sacred place.

  • In Arabia people were forbidden to cut fodder, fell trees, or hunt game within the precincts of a sacred place.

  • Hence sacrilege committed against a sacred person is a graver sin than that which is committed against a sacred place.

  • The owner has a sacred place or private chapel of his own, where he draws near to the ghost in prayer and burns his bit of food in the fire.

  • Each family is said to have a sacred place, whither they carry offerings for the spirits of dead ancestors, whom they terribly fear.

  • After the effigy of the dead has been made, the family go in state to a sacred place to purify themselves by bathing.

  • A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.

  • Sacred place (Civil Law), the place where a deceased person is buried.

  • Defn: A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.

  • Desecration is the performance in a sacred place of a notorious act of irreverence which so spiritually contaminates it that the divine offices may not be lawfully celebrated therein until the rite of reconciliation has been performed.

  • Profanation of a sacred place is a disregard for the religious respect or immunity due to it which in some way materially contaminates it (e.

  • Unworthy treatment of the Eucharist is the worst of sacrileges; ill-usage of a sacred person is worse than disrespect for a sacred place; treading the Sacred Species under foot is more contemptuous than an unworthy Communion, etc.

  • From the earliest period the mountain has been a sacred place; in later times it was covered with temples; to the present day it is a place of retreat for the Druses.

  • You instinctively felt that it was a sacred place to the master of the house, in which he daily sacrificed to one of his chosen deities.

  • They came home and gossiped about the appearance of their "set," and perhaps criticised the music, but one would never have dreamed from manner or conversation that they had gone to a sacred place to worship God in humility.

  • The Ka’abah claimed as a sacred place by them, 301, n.

  • Sabæans, their claim to the Ka’abah as a sacred place, ii.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    earthly life; free grace; interior life; lord prior; more happy; much nitrogen; protest against; regards their; sacred character; sacred duty; sacred fire; sacred literature; sacred meal; sacred music; sacred rites; sacred science; sacred song; sacred songs; sacred subjects; sacred thing; sacred things; sacred tree; several different; sexual gratification; small work; though unable