sacred
The semi-precious stones symbolize the site's sacredness to their culture.
We must recognise the sacredness and the dignity of every human life.
They believe in the sacredness of marriage.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Religious concepts: holiness
beatitude
blessed
bread
hallowed
holily
karma
karmic
man cannot live by bread aloneidiom
martyrdom
messianic
numinous
piety
profane
sacredly
sacrilegiously
sacrosanct
sainted
sainthood
visitation
worldliness

Examples of sacredness

sacredness
The sacredness of the individual is ultimately set apart from concerns about society.
The filling of the shaft was then done to enhance the sacredness of the royal space and to make preparations for intercity war fare.
She seeks to understand ' how sacredness is installed in kings ' (p. 17).
In external references, enemies did not grant the ruler such honor, because it probably countered the sacredness and divine status of the local lord's person.
It seems likely that these features resulted from human modification, specifically as a byproduct of ceremonies centered on stelae endowed with sacredness.
In other words, "sacredness" won't be intelligible in the naturalist ontological worldview, and so the worldview and the moral commitment will be inconsistent.
To him, the landscape particularly accentuated a sacredness in presence.
Obviously, most believers attribute sacredness to objects because of cultural\\ religious conditioning.
What is at issue here, surely, is the sacredness of consumer preferences.
Here, then, the sacredness of place puts into play a mobility of boundaries and spatial relationships, rather than closing them off.
It was the saint who functioned as mythical capital, and the coin's significance and value were derived from his sacredness.
Because of the sacredness of this pre-depositional behavior, then, the debris itself must be deposited with or in the same manner as other ritual materials.
Sacredness, in other words, is inseparable from power: major struggles within a given art field are about the consecration of works into the canon.
Because of the sacredness of the mantras, accurate transmission is required.
And seen well all his buildings reveal their sacredness.
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