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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the sanctity of marriage formal (= marriage seen as something that is very important and must be preserved and respected )
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Numerous miracles were proof of his sanctity .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As almost everyone except himself perfectly understood, these fasts were a ruthless exploitation of the power of his own sanctity .
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For she had learned how difficult it was to uphold the sanctity of human life without alienating women in trouble.
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He was a Confucian and believed in the worship of spirits and the sanctity of the ancestral land.
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I will not violate the sanctity of that union!
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In the great temple of Osiris at Abydos the tangible sense of sanctity has often been noted.
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Monolithic notions of sanctity reveal a startling reliance on hierarchical thinking.
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They re-affirmed the sanctity of the family, and the rights of parents and children in the home.
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What she experienced in her abusive marriage eventually forced her to re-examine Scripture concerning the sanctity of marriage and personhood.