SACROSANCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sacrosanct mean? 

• SACROSANCT (adjective)
  The adjective SACROSANCT has 1 sense:

1. must be kept sacred

  Familiarity information: SACROSANCT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SACROSANCT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Must be kept sacred

Synonyms:

inviolable; inviolate; sacrosanct

Similar:

sacred (concerned with religion or religious purposes)

 Context examples 

Something of my uncle’s sneer may have flickered upon my lips as I heard him allude with supercilious surprise to the presence in those sacrosanct circles of the men who had stood between the country and destruction.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)