sanctitude

[ sangk-ti-tood, -tyood ]

noun

1. holiness; saintliness; sanctity.

sanctitude

/ ˈsæŋktɪˌtjuːd /

noun

1. saintliness; holiness

Other Words From

• un·sancti·tude noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sanctitude¹

1400–50; late Middle English sanctitud < Latin sānctitūdō, equivalent to sāncti-, combining form of sānctus ( Sanctus + -tūdō -tude

Example Sentences

Each new suit is a chance at creation, of moving toward sanctitude.

From Los Angeles Times

Their physical delineation is to be accommodated by the imagination of the reader to this long catalogue of moral qualities,--nobility, honour, majesty, lordliness, worth, divinity, glory, brightness, truth, wisdom, sanctitude, severity, and purity.

From Project Gutenberg

This rare tablet doth include Poverty with sanctitude.

From Project Gutenberg

Similarly, the English law, always so careful of domestic sanctitude in women, provided that a wife who killed her husband should be dragged by a horse to the place of execution and burnt alive.

From Project Gutenberg

My wine gone too!—Ye lubbers, look about, And find the man that doth this villany, Or, by our sanctitude, you all shall die!—

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cleanliness