Used in a Sentence

sanctity

How to use sanctity in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for sanctity.

Editorial note

There's nothing inherent about the sanctity of language. If you can't be flexible, you might not be cut out for it.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

the quality of being holy

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sanctity gathered in one view.

noun

the quality of being holy

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sanctity.

Example sentences

1

There's nothing inherent about the sanctity of language. If you can't be flexible, you might not be cut out for it.

2

It's a bizarre reversal of high school, where people want to be mad at "bros" for invading the sanctity of the programming world. It's now cool to be un-cool.

3

They didn't encroach on the 'sanctity' of the former employee's home. They knocked on his door and had a conversation with him outside.

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The problem here is the sanctity of the asylum principle, which is not worth losing over such a petty dispute.

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It seems only natural that the next step will be blocking dissent and content deemed dangerous to the sanctity of the state. People of Great Britain, I hope you're not sleeping on this.

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I can't respond to your '"sanctity" of marriage' comment, because all I'm getting is vague left-wing ire. Those rights on that piece of paper have saved us from much government tyranny.

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- SMS is more of a private sanctity that people use for family and friends. Facebook, Twitter, Email can be ignored, filtered using labels and lists, and checked when the person has time.

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We ignored him for a while and now hurt by this he started calling all white women as whores who destroy the sanctity of the college and the nation. The worst part was the group of people around him who supported him.

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Or, similarly: - Snowden et al asked him to create a new keypair with very strict cleanroom practices[0] to be sure as to the sanctity of the private key. It's trivial to bump up the key length when doing so.

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The reason that juries can vote their conscience and nullify is a side effect of the sanctity of a jury trial. Juries can also vote based on the latest baseball game results, if they wanted.

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The more I read about the laws in the UK, the more I appreciate the laws in the USA. We don't have everything right, but at least our system is rooted in the notion of the sanctity of individual rights. Or was.

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The internet and associated hardware has penetrated the sanctity of the home, and its no longer a safe haven from the nasty harsh out side world. The internet has destroyed that.

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It is not some general defense of the right to refuse anything and the sanctity of the word "no". The word "no" in itself isn't some kind of sacred word, and it should not have general power in all contexts that's enforced, as you seem to be proposing.

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I'm sorry, but if the government of a country is going execute someone for "violating the sanctity of Islam", they are a bad country. By accepting this behavior, you are just allowing it to continue.

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And sometimes we as implementors have to deal with people whose sole goal in life is upholding the sanctity of a protocol to the detriment of it's users. The real point that I was trying to get across is that when you build your house on somebody else's API you have no guarantee.

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The UK government has threatened the sanctity of a diplomatic mission, putting diplomats and asylum seekers everywhere at risk, over someone who is wanted for questioning, with no actual charges yet to have been filed. That threat in itself is shocking.

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And I trust Amazon to be a reasonable steward of my information, and to maintain some sanctity over the context in which it's aggregated and analyzed. But I'm scattering plenty more breadcrumbs around the internet in my digital travels.

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That more or less invalidates the sanctity of the terms. > DigitalOcean also reserves the right to terminate a customers account if they are targeted by malicious activity from other parties.

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The bottom line is that these decisions need to be made on a case-by-case basis, and pounding on some creative hubris about the sanctity of each pixel will not guarantee anyone a more successful project. If you ran some A/B testing on the rounded corner issue you might be horrified to find out how inconsequential it ends up being in any given case.

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Let me just leave you with a quote from Winston Churchill "A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men."

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Voter preference, individual rights, domain name sanctity, jurisdiction, shortsightedness with regard to keeping control of TLD's, futility of the fight, all have no bearing when uncontested lobby money wants something, and doubly so when states think it will mean more tax dollars in their pockets.

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This is a document that has been used to justify slavery, prohibition, woman as property, Jim Crow laws, the "sanctity" of marriage etc. If history shows us anything it is that regardless of whatever is written down, the laws of the land will be made by the popular opinion of those that have power, and how they interpret things.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use sanctity in a sentence?

There's nothing inherent about the sanctity of language. If you can't be flexible, you might not be cut out for it.

What does sanctity mean?

the quality of being holy

What part of speech is sanctity?

sanctity is commonly used as noun.