[responsivevoice]sacrosanct [/responsivevoice] [ sak-roh-sangkt ]
The word of the day is ‘sacrosanct’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Sacred
2. Regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with.
3. Divine
4. Holy
1. Diplomatic envoys are just as sacrosanct as heads of States.
2. In their eyes, the king was not merely autocratic, but sacrosanct.
3. The “Military Situation” was sacrosanct, supreme, inviolable!
4. The individual’s right to work has been upheld as sacrosanct
5. Evidently to her, the spot on which Adrian sat was sacrosanct.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
revered, venerated, blessed, consecrated, divine, godly, hallowed, holy, pious, pure, religious, sacramental, saintly, sanctified, spiritual, unprofane, sacred, respected, inviolable, unimpeachable, invulnerable, inalienable, protected, defended, unthreatened, hold sacred, celestial etc.
nonreligious, irreligious, profane, secular, earthly, unspiritual, worldly, irreverent, sacrilegious, delicate, blasphemous, impious, unholy, alienable, dissoluble, infirm, insubstantial, irritable, narrow, penetrating, pernickety, piercing, poignant, precise, ungodly, temporal, gauzy, incisive, prickly, pungent, violable, godless, mundane, unconsecrated, unhallowed, deconsecrated, desacralized
Quotation:
If you don’t have ample liquidity, and it’s not durable, in times of stress, as you’re looking for liquidity, you’re forced to sell assets at declining prices, which then eats into your capital position, so it becomes this very, very negative cycle. There’s no question that liquidity is sacrosanct.
Ruth Porat
Social Example:
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