sacred
concerned with religion or religious purposes
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,662 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,955 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- concerned with religion or religious purposes sacred textssacred rites
- worthy of respect or dedication saw motherhood as woman's sacred calling
- made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use also: consecrated, sanctified a consecrated churchthe sacred mosque
- worthy of religious veneration also: hallowed the sacred name of JesusJerusalem's hallowed soil
- (often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person a fund sacred to charitya morning hour sacred to study
sacred in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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His own rooms can be sacred to him.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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The man who once loved you is sacred to me.
How He Lied to Her Husband · Bernard Shaw · Chapter 1
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Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads?
Poems Household Edition · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Chapter 1
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Books became sacred things to him, to be cherished and protected as nothing else.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1
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Thy sorrow o'er thy sacred dust Is sanctified by hope and trust; God's love and man's are here.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1