SANCTITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sanctity mean? 

• SANCTITY (noun)
  The noun SANCTITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being holy

  Familiarity information: SANCTITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANCTITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being holy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

holiness; sanctitude; sanctity

Hypernyms ("sanctity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

holy (belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power)

unhallowed; unholy (not hallowed or consecrated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sanctity"):

sacredness (the quality of being sacred)

 Context examples 

He does not care for that: when my time came to die, he would resign me, in all serenity and sanctity, to the God who gave me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Whether those holy lords I spoke of were always promoted to that rank upon account of their knowledge in religious matters, and the sanctity of their lives; had never been compliers with the times, while they were common priests; or slavish prostitute chaplains to some nobleman, whose opinions they continued servilely to follow, after they were admitted into that assembly?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

No,—I exaggerate; I never thought there was any consecrating virtue about her: it was rather a sort of pastille perfume she had left; a scent of musk and amber, than an odour of sanctity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These were searched and sought out through the whole nation, by the prince and his wisest counsellors, among such of the priesthood as were most deservedly distinguished by the sanctity of their lives, and the depth of their erudition; who were indeed the spiritual fathers of the clergy and the people.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)