sacred space
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsacredandspace
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sacred
adjective
uk/ˈseɪ.krɪd/us/ˈseɪ.krɪd/
considered to be holy and deserving respect, especially because of a connection with ...
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space
noun
uk/speɪs/us/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofsacredandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsacred space
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They paid taxes, obeyed administrators and contributed to military conscription, but strived to maintain cultural hegemony over what they considered as theirsacredspace.
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Likewise, they built chapels within their palaces, thereby appropriating a personalsacredspaceto replace that lost to the canons in the cathedral.
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In the centre of each settlement nucleus a parish church appeared, being the officialsacredspace, with, next to it, the common graveyard.
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The poet's globalizing reverie at the banks of the river transforms the world, in his imagination, into the precincts of asacredspace.
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As cardinal places, the five serpent temples defined the boundaries of the mostsacredspace.
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Despite such discontinuities, later generations' modifications ofsacredspaceshow a dialogical relation with the built environment left by previous generations.
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Connected with the concept of privacy is the idea of profane versussacredspace.
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We may safely do so when it is evident that the coins were found within thesacredspaceof the sanctuary, the temenos.
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These associations with purity, with caves, and with the underworld undergird the interpretation of the pit as consecrating asacredspace.
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It is a quiet space that acts as a threshold between the everyday world of the monastery and thesacredspaceof the altar.
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What kind of space do you think 'sacredspace' is?
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To the majority of our early modern ancestors - good, bad and ugly -sacredspacemattered.
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Smith's study of these simultaneously explores the physical structure of nunneries and the rules' construction of them assacredspace.
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Church buildings are open - all people can come in to escape from the dirt, noise and bustle of the city and to enjoy a moment insacredspace.
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Sometime between the laying of the second and third floors, the column ofsacredspaceinitially activated by the pit was reactivated, utilizing the social memory of the pit's location.
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Pugh common denominators tying ceremonial buildings into a larger framework ofsacredspace.
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The first three piers that are closest to the altar are topped with red abacuses to define thesacredspace.
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Current research interests includesacredspace, architecture, and the psyche; and the study of religious, spiritual, and existential themes in the history of psychoanalysis.
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His oeuvre includes medals and plaques, statues and sculptures, fountains, monuments, memorials, monuments and works of art for thesacredspace.
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