To the landowner who lives in his village like a feudal lord the simple Gospel, with its insistence on the sacredness of work, comes as an intellectual revolution.
The lively chat of the girls seemed to our heroine so unsuited to the sacredness of the day that she rejoiced in the excuse Herbert's invitation gave her for withdrawing herself from their society for the greater part of the afternoon.
We write every day, and each receives a letter from the other every day but Sunday; on that day we never go or send to the post-office; and we write only on such subjects as are suited to the sacredness of its Sabbath rest.
The sacredness of individuality in the sense just indicated is a leading idea of ethics--perhaps it would not be too much to say, the leading idea.
In the first place, to deepen the impression of the wrongfulness of lying, and the sacredness of truth, by the spirit in which I approach the subject.
The sacredness of an office depends upon thesacredness of character.
The Inquisition judged all men and was to be judged by none and, in the sacredness which shielded it, any attempt to examine its methods was a crime.
In an age of dusty modernity, when beauty was thought of as something barbaric and ugliness as something sensible, he alone saw that men must always have the sacredness of mummery.
Nietzsche's aristocracy has about it all the sacredness that belongs to the weak.
And, oh, the wonder, and sweetness, and sacrednessof it!
The first axiom of the spiritual life is the sacredness of the individuality of each.
Worse still, it is often blighted at the very beginning by the insatiable desire for piquancy in talk, which can forget the sacredness of confidence.
In the deed is the pledge of the sacredness of life; in the deed is the reward of our activities in health; in the deed our solace, and our salvation even in the abysmal gulfs of woe.
Meaning mighty changes for the better, when invoked with a profounder sense of its sanctity, and a new sacredness in life, and larger impulses for ever and for ever.
A new sense of the sacredness of human life has been born in this later age.
This return to his father's house, and all its associations, solemn and sacred with a peculiar sacredness and solemnity, seemed to him a pledge that he could once more be admitted into the great brotherhood and home of Christ's disciples.
He had uttered them innumerable times; never quite without a feeling of their sacredness and sweetness.
It might even be asked whether the violence of this contrast was not necessary to disengage the feeling of sacredness in its first form.
Like the notion of sacredness upon which it rests, the system of interdicts extends into the most diverse relations; it is even used deliberately for utilitarian ends.
As Jevons very truly says in the passage to which we refer, the contagious character of sacredness is affirmed a priori, and not on a faith in badly interpreted experiences.
So the contagion is not a sort of secondary process by which sacredness is propagated, after it has once been acquired; it is the very process by which it is acquired.
This contagiousness of sacredness is too well known a phenomenon[1094] to require any proof of its existence from numerous examples; we only wish to show that it is as true in totemism as in the more advanced religions.
Totemic principle, or Mana, cause of the sacredness of things, 62 ff.
IV But if this contagiousness of sacredness helps to explain the system of interdicts, how is it to be explained itself?
We shall return again to this contagiousness, when we shall show that it comes from the social origins of the idea of sacredness (Bk.
Let us attempt to determine exactly what form this collective action takes in the clan and how it arouses the sensation of sacredness there.
So it is derived immediately from the notion ofsacredness itself, and it limits itself to expressing and realizing this.
We have already had occasion to show how simple contact with a churinga is enough to sanctify men and things;[1083] it is also upon this principle of the contagiousness of sacredness that all the rites of consecration repose.
This ambiguity, moreover, is not peculiar to the idea of sacredness alone; something of this characteristic has been found in all the rites which we have been studying.
Neither the sacredness of law nor the weapons of their friends could longer afford them any protection.
By such an endeavor, one does but excite the repugnance of all except the unfortunate few, who can see no peculiar sacredness in woman's person, mind, or heart.
The only hope for France," said she "is in the sacredness of law.
Her spirit was most deeply impressed and overawed by the sacredness of the ceremony.
In season and out of season, whether men would bear or whether they would forbear, he taught the sacredness of marriage.
The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, is transferred to the record.
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
But, to do the Roman people justice, they were restrained by a better safeguard than the sabre or the bayonet; it was their own gentle courtesy, which imparted a sort of sacredness to the hereditary festival.
And, since we are separated forever, it has the sacredness of an injunction from a dead friend.
The duty of private judgment, of searching after truth, the sacredness of belief which ought not to be misused on unproved statements, follow only on showing of the enormous importance to society of a true knowledge of things.
The very sacredness of the precious deposit imposes upon us the duty and the responsibility of testing it, of purifying and enlarging it to the utmost of our power.
Every act which renders woman dear to us, denounces such an idea and reveals the exclusive sacredness of her Love.
The following beautiful sentiment of Hood truthfully expresses the sacredness of the physician's trust: "Above all price of wealth The body's jewel.
This conception of the Divine and everlasting sacredness of virtue, is a perennial fountain of strength.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacredness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: godliness; holiness; sanctity
