All 3 Uses of
sanctity
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Essentially, the manuscript is about the iconography of goddess worship—the concept of female sanctity and the art and symbols associated with it.†
Chpt 4 *
- When Langdon had first seen The Little Mermaid, he had actually gasped aloud when he noticed that the painting in Ariel's underwater home was none other than seventeenth-century artist Georges de la Tour's The Penitent Magdalene—a famous homage to the banished Mary Magdalene—fitting decor considering the movie turned out to be a ninety-minute collage of blatant symbolic references to the lost sanctity of Isis, Eve, Pisces the fish goddess, and, repeatedly, Mary Magdalene.†
Chpt 61-62
- I should never breach the sanctity of the confessional, but in this case, I feel I must.†
Chpt 101-102
Definition:
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(sanctity) the quality of being sacred or deserving deep respect