Careful Words

sacred (adj.)

  Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Advancement of Learning. Book ii.

A sacred burden is this life ye bear:

Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,

Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly.

Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,

But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.

Wendell Phillips (1811-1884): Lines addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Lenox Academy, Mass.

  We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826): Declaration of Independence.

And wiped our eyes

Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619): Musophilus. Stanza 57.

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me,

For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book v. Line 572.

But touch me, and no minister so sore;

Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time

Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,

Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,

And the sad burden of some merry song.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 76.