sacred writ

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While still treated as sacred writ, the constitution no longer described the nation’s existing system of governance.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2020

Some of these are to be found in sacred writ, of which the riddle which Samson proposed to the young men of Timnath, is a very ancient and curious specimen.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus

Then, if he turn not to the pages of sacred writ for an answer, he will find written on the living pages and animated forms of all nature the promise of another life.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward

Nor write, nor speak you more of sacred writ, But what shall force up your arrested wit.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

Adam Clarke and Matthew Henry must sometimes turn over in their graves when he expounds the more mysterious passages of sacred writ.

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus