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‘A name can be sacred.’

[⟨det name.n⟩ sacred.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

As for the “Sacred Name’ ’, for me, God is God.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The Droning Voice, I deemed it this sacred name.
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In Wikipedia:

The Cherokee revered the Great Spirit, called the Yowa (a name so sacred that only a priest could say it), who presided over all things and created Mother Earth.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I won *n’t dirty my fingers with a bit of chalk, white residue powder some type of calcium from the earth to write your name on a sidewalk your name so sacred so beautiful even saying it sometimes would cause my heart to flutter in my chest as easily as a dupatta in the breeze your name too holy to be written to be thought to be embodied just thinking it is enough to make my skin erupt in goosebumps (unfinished?)
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Lyon wrote:’ ’ (W) henever I shall, on the part of the executive, see every consideration of the public welfare swallowed up by a continual grasp for power; in an unbounded thirst for ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice; when I shall behold men of real merit daily turned out of office, for no other cause but independency of sentiment;… and men of meanness preferred for the ease with which they take up and advocate opinions… when I shall see the sacred name of religion employed as a state engine to make mankind hate and persecute one another, I shall not be their humble advocate.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

On the other hand, when we read the word “LORD,’ ’ it is is completely different Hebrew word, “Yehowah.” “Adhonay’ ’ is actually a title for God meaning’ ’ sovereign one.” “Yehowah’ ’ is the sacred name of God.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Names were sacred in their world, as they defined a person, and were representations of power.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

That made a worm of me, and ousted honour From the house that bears your sacred name In which you raised me like your very own To which I have set foot from pillaging Oh Ot – to – to – to – to Otousan, the very wise Otousan Why is my black hound playing dead?
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In the British National Corpus:

Her novel had remained relevant over two centuries simply because Frankenstein was the archetype of the scientist whose research, pursued in the sacred name of increasing knowledge, takes on a life of its own and causes untold misery before being brought under control.
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In the British National Corpus:

He managed to turn Llewelyn’s imposing new title, compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh, and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw, into a satirical comment, but he did it with great delicacy.
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In Wikipedia:

Dodd, the first example of a sacred name Bible.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Any Sacred Name?
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In Wikipedia:

The lack of Sacred Name Bible usage suggests the translations that are available are accurate enough for usage.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Names, almost sacred, are whispered with reverence.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You are The Sun glinting on the Sacred Water and The Shadow of the Bright Shadow Of your own Sacred Name.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called’ she – parents, ‘or’ female progenitors,’ or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

There is a natural empathy in the Muslim world for anyone who carries a sacred Muslim name, such as there was for Muhammad Ali (even though his brand of Islam, the Nation of Islam, was as foreign to most Muslims as Mormonism is to mainstream Christianity).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A name is sacred, an integral part of one’s identity, and I think it should therefore be something of my choosing, not someone else’s and sure as hell not theirs.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You need not know my name, for my name is sacred.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.