Meanings
- not comparableNot having been sanctified; not made sacred; remaining mundane or worldly.
They forced me into a convent, whence your father rescued me: and that evening I was married to him—ay, married. A daughter of my noble house could not have stooped to a love unsanctified by duty.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 154–155Synonyms: secular, temporal, unconsecrated, areligious, civil, earthly, irreligious, laicist
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot having been sanctified; not made sacred; remaining mundane or worldly.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishsanctified
- Englishunsanctified
From un- + sanctified.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Esperanto nesanktita
- nesanktitanot made sacred
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