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sanctum Tweet Definition of sanctum Like Definition of sanctum on Facebook
noun 
  1. A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a private retreat or workroom.
1848 For myself, I had no need to make any change; I should not be called upon to quit my of the schoolroom; for a it was now become to me, -- "a very pleasant refuge in time of trouble." Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre'', http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=111118993&tag=Bronte,+Charlotte,+1816-1855.:+Jane+Eyre:+an+autobiography,+Vol.+I,+1848&query=sanctum&id=BroJanI Chapter 17.
Etymology: Latin sanctum, 'holy place'

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