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The quality of being too sacred to touch, question, or audit.
means The state of being holy, sacred, or inviolable — so important or revered that it shouldn't be violated or interfered with.
from From Latin 'sanctitas' (holiness, sacredness), rooted in 'sanctus' — the past participle of 'sancire,' meaning to make sacred or inviolable by ritual or law. That same root gives us 'saint' and 'sanction' — a reminder that the word was born in the overlap between the holy and the legally untouchable, where gods and governments agreed: some things you simply do not poke.
- etymology
- from Latin sanctus, meaning set apart
- legal use
- invoked most when contracts want to dodge scrutiny
- paradox
- the more it is declared, the shakier it is
- common pairing
- marriage, life, contract — rarely proven, often assumed