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Examples
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The only thing missing is his thesis is the sancity of white womanhood and the superiority of southern white male leadership.
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There seems to have been a complete breakdown both of the religious character of the priesthood, and the idea of the sancity of religious life and of the Holy Mass.
Update 2009
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I think this cause was not the best - sancity of life - what about the abuse of life in just about half the world.
Final Comment Shambo shambles Valleys Mam 2007
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The sancity of knowledge, for better or worse, has been compromised in order to make it more freely available.
Glass houses post-doc 2005
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"The sancity of life must be respected, the poor innocent people in Afghanistan must be protected against the state-sponsored terrorism of the United States," Benjamin said.
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President Thabo Mbeki of attempting to divide the Muslim community in the Western Cape and abusing the sancity of a Muslim service.
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They had a cordial dislike for new devotions, believing that Christmas and Easter Communion was quite enough for ordinary sancity.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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From her very childhood, St. Clare gave evidence of the exalted sancity to which she was one day to attain, and which made her the recipient of so many signal favours from God.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Salvation seems to be handed out in Verona without ice cream and cake, and the odor of sancity and stewed oysters do not go inevitably hand in hand.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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"No doubt; and we should feel it our duty to make every exertion to punish any one who makes an attempt to violate the sancity of our house."
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