adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a holy/sacred vow
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When we get married in church we are making sacred vows.
a sacred mountain (= considered holy )
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Mount Fuji is a sacred mountain.
a sacred oath (= one you swear by God )
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Stephen swore a sacred oath to recognise Matilda as Queen.
a sacred site (= a place that is important in a religion )
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Ayers Rock is the most sacred site of the Aborigines.
sacred cow
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In New York’s show business scene, money, fame and power are sacred cows.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Probably different kinds of trees were regarded as sacred .
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The United States sees intellectual property rights as sacred , said Thomas Klitgaard, an attorney specializing in international law.
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Humanity isn't as sacred as it likes to think.
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This has become almost as sacred as the first amendment right of free speech.
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My own position would also be called into question, as I regard Sunday as sacred .
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Each tribe responded and became attached to its own specific landscape, seeing particular lakes and trees as sacred .
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Yet these texts are read as sacred texts.
most
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Much later, the perehera was adopted by the Buddhists to display their most sacred relic.
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Medieval texts refer to it as one of the fifty-one most sacred places for Hindus.
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More than 800 men died and their bodies still lie in what has become Britain's most sacred maritime war grave.
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A most sacred obligation was bound up with a most atrocious crime.
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This was the most sacred part of the cathedral and also of the castle itself.
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It means challenging some of the most sacred myths about public schooling.
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You call silly the most sacred moment between a man and a woman?
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They were most sacred days, when much of the ordinary business of life was suspended.
■ NOUN
animal
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She travelled in a chariot drawn by cats, the latter being her sacred animal symbol and familiars.
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His sacred animals were the ram and the goose.
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The ram was also one of the sacred animals of Amun.
duty
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The juxtaposition of their love-making against Bishop Casey performing his sacred duties will do more than shock.
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So it was a husband's sacred duty not to refuse her on that day even if he were practising celibacy.
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But the priestly role was not finished, and their equally sacred duty of reading and explaining the law remained.
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And nothing must threaten this sacred duty .
fire
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They married, had children, and tended the sacred fire .
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A sacred fire is protected by small, round stones.
geometry
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All the principles of sacred geometry were applied in their construction.
grove
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As a description of a sacred grove , with its legends, character and atmosphere, this is hard to better!
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I am in the sacred grove with a priestess in the last surviving matriarchal, communal culture on earth.
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I believe the Druid sacred groves to have been functionally identical with, and a direct continuity of, ley mark-clumps.
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Then taking her on board they went where she directed and reached the sacred grove where the Fleece hung.
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The servants had unpacked the picnic hampers, filling the sacred grove with roasted chickens, quails, and potted shrimps.
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The sacred grove is our sanctuary, our temple.
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Black-armoured warriors burned the sacred groves .
music
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Moreover he enjoyed sacred music too.
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In May 1893, he conducted a special service of sacred music here at Halling, assisted by his wife.
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His sacred music , songs and string sonatas have been recorded and testify to the breadth of his artistry.
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Universities and Colleges Academic studies in university music faculties often pay considerable attention to sacred music from the Early and Renaissance periods.
object
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We understand how deeply people can become attached to sacred objects .
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Before we started, nuclear bombs were sacred objects .
place
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Sometimes they stand in for a deity, haunting the sacred places and occupying a position midway between gods and men.
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The Gypsy expressed shock that I could tell such a fib, especially in this sacred place .
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No one but the officiating priest was allowed to approach this most sacred place .
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Medieval texts refer to it as one of the fifty-one most sacred places for Hindus.
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Can it be by chance that mankind's sacred places are almost always spaces where echoed are heard to particularly good effect?
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Originally I conceived of this book as a series of journeys to sacred places .
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He became more famous when he moved to Walden Pond, which he saw as a kind of sacred place .
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Still, there is a way that science has helped to amputate our understanding of the world as a sacred place .
relic
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Much later, the perehera was adopted by the Buddhists to display their most sacred relic .
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They were thus especially suitable to guard sacred relics and great sanctuaries.
site
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He was celebrated there as a martyr, and his grave became a shrine, a sacred site , a pilgrimage centre.
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In fact, I am looking forward to seeing my sacred site anew.
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This began to promote excessive erosion and Aboriginal concerns relating to infringements of their sacred sites which abound in the region.
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Explorer-anthropologist Martin Gray has spent 12 years wandering through 800 sacred sites scattered around the globe.
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Ley hunters today answer as Watkins himself did, by suggesting the evolution of sacred sites .
space
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These taboos against women as polluting to male sacred space are very ancient.
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But the principles for planning a sacred space are the same, Price said.
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All haunted by the sense of a sacred space , a sacred time.
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All of this is contained in the sacred space unfurled by the telling of the myth.
text
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Yet these texts are read as sacred texts.
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Building anew on the old sacred texts , these innovations brought a spiritual renewal to every major faith.
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And, oh yes, a full-scale Martian invasion has been added to the sacred text .
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Messing around with sacred texts is against their religious law.
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Job descriptions became their sacred texts , for they were considered the workers' protection against exploitation.
tree
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I imagined solemn covens chanting, straggling torchlight processions winding up to mountain tops, stone circles, sacred trees and springs.
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It is used in respect of sacred trees , shrines, etc., and is performed as an act of reverence or respect.
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This, he explained, was a sacred tree .
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The Mochlos ring shows a sacred tree growing out of the shrine being ferried along on the priestess's ship.
trust
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In the public interest view also, regulators perform their allotted tasks as a sacred trust .
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For her, the designation of godparent is a sacred trust .
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They were, in a sense, a sacred trust .
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The Sky People allowed the Navajos to memorize each one as a sacred trust for healing purposes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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sacred rites
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sacred writings
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a choir specialising in sacred music
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Certain animals were considered sacred by the Aztecs.
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Our time at home with our kids is sacred .
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The Japanese regard Mount Fuji as a sacred mountain.
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the miraculous power of sacred relics
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The olive tree was regarded as sacred to the goddess Athena.
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These burial grounds are sacred to the Native Americans.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the public interest view also, regulators perform their allotted tasks as a sacred trust.
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Like most everyone else in this country, I learned early on that the flag is a sacred symbol.
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Other cities also had noble temples; none had such a splendid facade to its whole sacred area.
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Religion is the human enterprise by which a sacred cosmos is established.
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The monotheistic order required that the feminine should be barred from the sphere of power, which coincided with the sacred .
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We could eat all the sacred dirt on earth, but still those who loved to make war would make war.