Entry Word: sacrosanct

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 not to be violated, criticized, or tampered with <the teacher's book of grades is sacrosanct, and someone could be expelled for changing anything in it> — see sacred 1
2 set apart or worthy of veneration by association with God <believers eventually built a chapel on the sacrosanct spot where the miracle was thought to have taken place> — see holy 2