sacred writ
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While still treated as sacred writ, the constitution no longer described the nation’s existing system of governance.
From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2020
Like all devout persons, her faith in the efficacy of sacred writ was strong: and she so much the more lamented her suitor's continued blindness, because it remained after light had shone upon it.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore
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
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
How truly this applies to the persons mentioned in sacred writ!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various
