"sanctum" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin sānctum (“that which is holy”).",
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          "word": "inner sanctum"
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          "ref": "1848, Charlotte Bronte, chapter 17, in Jane Eyre",
          "text": "For myself, I had no need to make any change; I should not be called upon to quit my sanctum of the schoolroom; for a sanctum it was now become to me, – \"a very pleasant refuge in time of trouble.\"",
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          "ref": "1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13",
          "text": "A diary, after all, is a sanctum for self-confession.",
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          "ref": "2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist",
          "text": "His colleagues quailed when, in 1986, he first sat on the court as a brash 50-year-old whose experience had been mostly as a combative government lawyer: a justice who, in that sanctum of columns and deep judicial silence, was suddenly firing questions like grapeshot.",
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        "A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom."
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          "retreat",
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          "workroom",
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          "roman": "svetilište",
          "sense": "a place set apart",
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          "word": "светилище"
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          "roman": "áduton",
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      "sense": "a place set apart",
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      "word": "светилище"
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