sanctitude

Etymology

From Latin sanctitudo.

sanctitude means holiness; sacredness; sanctity. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

SANCTITUDE — [Noun] The quality of holiness or sacredness, or its potentially affected display. From the Latin sanctitudo, from sanctus ("holy, sacred") and the suffix -tudo (indicating a state or condition). Unlike "sanctity" (which denotes genuine, inherent sacredness) or "sanctimony" (which specifies hypocritical piety), sanctitude occupies the uneasy middle ground—a word that holds the possibility of both the true and the performed. It is the quiet, candlelit hush of a cathedral, the carefully arranged humility of a pilgrim's garb, and the precisely modulated tone of a public prayer—all outward forms that may either clothe an inner grace or stand in for its absence, a testament to our profound need to make the divine legible, even to ourselves.

noun

holiness; sacredness; sanctity“[...] in thir looks Divine / The image of thir glorious Maker ſhon, / Truth, Wiſdome, Sanctitude ſevere and pure, / Severe, but in true filial freedom plac't”
affected holiness; sanctimoniousness