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sanctimonia

sanctimonia · f

sacredness

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Where it lives

Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
De Pudicitia 4 · 2.98/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 2 · 2.31/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 2 · 0.88/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sanctĭmōnĭa — Lewis & Short

sanctĭmōnĭa, ae, f.sanctus; cf.: acrimonia, parsimonia, etc.,

I sacredness, sanctity, moral purity, virtuousness, chastity, etc. (rare but class.): ad deorum religionem et sanctimoniam demigrasse, Cic. Rab. Perd. 10, 30: habere domum clausam pudori et sanctimoniae, patentem cupiditati et voluptatibus, id. Quint. 30, 93: summa sanctimonia, id. ib. 17, 55: priscae sanctimoniae virgo, Tac. A. 3, 69 fin.; cf. id. ib. 2, 86: femina sanctimoniā insignis, id. ib. 12, 6: nuptiarum, Auct. Her. 4, 33, 44: sine quā nemo videbit Deum, Vulg. Heb. 12, 14.

In the wild

sanctimoniam Tertullian, De Pudicitia 17
sanctimonia Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.2.19
sanctimonia Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.18.a
sanctimonia Tacitus, Annales 2.p87
sanctimoniae Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 47
sanctimoniam Historia Augusta, Tacitus 3

6 of 25 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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