sanctitude

English

Etymology

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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)