(Judaism) sanctuary comprised of the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle in the temple of Solomon where the Ark of the Covenant was kept.
A place of inviolable privacy.
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Examples for "sanctum"
Examples for "sanctum"
1Plenty of room for his needs: the inner sanctum of Devlin West.
2We're in what's left of Schiller's private sanctum, facing an open gate.
3He found the sanctum under the guard of the young assistant editor.
4I went to Dyananda, busy in his small sanctum overlooking the Ganges.
5He gained his sanctum without any particular trouble and was warmly greeted.
1The den of Cacus, or sanctum sanctorum, could not have hid me from you.
2Perhaps he was in the sanctum sanctorum, focusing his formidable will upon some spiritual exercise.
3Adjoining it on one side was a smaller office that served as Markus's sanctum sanctorum.
4Before leaving Andy's sanctum sanctorum, he regards the hatchet.
5Two men went up into the sanctum sanctorum of the Quill Drivers' Club to lunch.
6It was my sanctum sanctorum in the holidays.
7The grubs' dormitory is the sanctum sanctorum which no outsider must enter under pain of death.
8Did you ever return to the sanctum sanctorum, or holy of holies, of King Solomon's Temple?
9He is stationed in the sanctum sanctorum.
10This was not some kind of Star Chamber, a sanctum sanctorum where important and discipline-changing decisions were made.
11The sanctum sanctorum of the writer.
12Arctis Tor was the heart of the Winter Court, the fortress and sanctum sanctorum of Queen Mab herself.
13The gazelle will have soft fur, and the lion a shaggy hide, and the sanctum sanctorum is the student's cuticle.
14This gate, which leads into the sanctum sanctorum of the third court, was long known as the Bab-I-Aali, the High Gate.
15He said nothing, however; but, obeying Mr Slow's invitation, followed him and his cousin into the sanctum sanctorum of the chambers.
16Reuter turned her eye laterally on me, to ascertain, probably, whether I was collected enough to be ushered into her sanctum sanctorum.
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