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The quality or state of being inviolable; inviolableness.

To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to. The holy man, amazed at what he saw, Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law. Dryden. Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line. Pope.

Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath.