protosanctuary
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Thus, Charlemagne's protopilgrimage brings him to a protosanctuary where the hero's body is already almost a statue,"
- "An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice."
- "T. Desmond Alexander, The City of God and the Goal of Creation (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2018), makes the distinction (contra Beale) that Eden is not necessarily a “protosanctuary,” but rather, that each later sanctuary is “a restored garden of Eden” (19)."
Etymology
From proto- + sanctuary.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: proto