sacred writ

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

While still treated as sacred writ, the constitution no longer described the nation’s existing system of governance.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2020

Then, if he turn not to the pages of sacred writ for an answer, he will find written on the living pages and animated forms of all nature the promise of another life.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward

I have found it in the sacred writ, said I, that Cain was the first that built a town; we may then reasonably conjecture that from his name he gave it that of Cainon.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

It showed men how to understand certain passages of sacred writ respecting the earth and heavenly bodies which they had before misinterpreted.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

Shakespeare writes— "From the table of my memory I'll wipe away all saws of books," and elsewhere of another of his characters he says that "his weapons" were "holy saws of sacred writ."

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)