sanctum

英語

詞源

源自拉丁語 sānctum (“神聖之物”)。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈsæŋktəm/

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名詞

sanctum (複數 sanctums 或 sancta)

1. 聖所
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 200:

     As he descended the stairs, two persons passed him, so remarkably dissimilar in their persons, dress, and carriage, that he could not forbear to look earnestly at them, as forming a criterion of the mixed character of company admissible in such places, and which was to him (with his preconceived notions of the inviolability of the female sanctum) an insuperable objection to such scenes of general resort.

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   • 1848, Charlotte Bronte, chapter 17, in Jane Eyre:

     For myself, I had no need to make any change; I should not be called upon to quit my sanctum of the schoolroom; for a sanctum it was now become to me, – "a very pleasant refuge in time of trouble."

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   • 1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

     A diary, after all, is a sanctum for self-confession.

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   • 2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist‎^[1]:

     His colleagues quailed when, in 1986, he first sat on the court as a brash 50-year-old whose experience had been mostly as a combative government lawyer: a justice who, in that sanctum of columns and deep judicial silence, was suddenly firing questions like grapeshot.

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派生詞彙

• inner sanctum

拉丁語

分詞

sānctum

1. sānctus 的屈折：
   1. 主格/賓格/呼格中性單數
   2. 賓格陽性單數

名詞

sānctum 陽

1. sānctus 的賓格單數 (晚期拉丁語)

古英語

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈsɑnk.tum/, [ˈsɑŋk.tum]

名詞

sanctum

1. sanct 的與格複數