sanctitude

English

Etymology

From Latin sanctitudo.

Noun

sanctitude (countable and uncountable, plural sanctitudes)

1. holiness; sacredness; sanctity
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 291–294:

     [...] in thir looks Divine / The image of thir glorious Maker ſhon, / Truth, Wiſdome, Sanctitude ſevere and pure, / Severe, but in true filial freedom plac't

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2. affected holiness; sanctimoniousness

References

• “sanctitude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.