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- - Sacred is applied to that which is to be regarded as inviolable on any account, and so is not restricted to divine things; therefore in its lower applications it is less than holy. That which is sacred may be made so by institution, decree, or association; that which is holy is so by its own nature, possessing intrinsic moral purity, and, in the highest sense, absolute moral perfection. God is holy; his commands are sacred. Holy may be applied also to that which is hallowed; as, " the place whereon thou standest is holy ground," Ex. iii, 5. In such use holy is more than sacred, as if the very qualities of a spiritual or divine presence were imparted to the place or object. Divine has been used with great looseness, as applying to anything eminent or admirable, in the line either of goodness or of mere power, as to eloquence, music, etc., but there is a commendable tendency to restrict the word to its higher sense, as designating that which belongs to or is worthy of the Divine Being. Compare PERFECT; PURE.
Antonyms:
- desecrating, unconsecrated, wicked, unhallowed, deconsecrated, impure, irreligious, unspiritual, unfaithful, impious, miscreant, faithless, cursed, abominable, worldly, irreverent, polluted, human, sinning, profane, natural, iniquitous, unrighteous, unsanctified, sinful, secular, profanatory, evil, sacrilegious, earthly, black, backsliding, common, blasphemous, mortal, ungodly, nonreligious, unholy, mundane, godless, immoral, temporal
