Sanctity - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: sanctityOffence of adultery
Offence of adultery, the 'offence of adultery' as defined in s. 497, IPC, can only be committed by a man, not by a woman. Indeed, the section provides expressly that the wife shall not be punishable even as an abettor. No grievance can then be made that the section does not allow the wife to prosecute the husband for adultery. The contemplation of the law, evidently, is that the wife, who is involved in an illicit relationship with another man, is a victim and not the author of the crime. The offence of adultery, as defined in s. 497, is considered by the Legislature as an offence against the sanctity of the matrimonial home, an act which is committed by a man, as it generally is. Therefore, those men who defile that sanctity are brought within the net of the law, Sowmithri Vishnu v. Union of India, AIR 1985 SC 1618: (1985) Supp SCC 137: (1985) Supp 1 SCR 741....
Beatification
The act of beatifying or the state of being beatified esp in the R C Church the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of ldquothe blessedrdquo or has attained the second degree of sanctity usually a stage in the process of canonization...
Desecrate
To divest of a sacred character or office to divert from a sacred purpose to violate the sanctity of to profane to put to an unworthy use the opposite of consecrate...
Halidom
Holiness sanctity sacred oath sacred things sanctuary used chiefly in oaths...
Holily
Piously with sanctity in a holy manner...
Holiness
The state or quality of being holy perfect moral integrity or purity freedom from sin sanctity innocence...
Pharisee
One of a sect or party among the Jews noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews...
Sanctified
Made holy also made to have the air of sanctity sanctimonious...
Sanctimony
Holiness devoutness scrupulous austerity sanctity especially outward or artificial saintliness assumed or pretended holiness hypocritical devoutness...
Sanctitude
Holiness sacredness sanctity...
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