sanctitude
English
Etymology
Latin sanctitudo.
Noun
sanctitude (countable and uncountable, plural sanctitudes)
- holiness; sacredness; sanctity
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- affected holiness; sanctimoniousness
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sanctitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)