Noun
A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. Carl Jung
No solemn sanctimonious face I pull, Nor think I'm pious when I'm only bilious; Nor study in my sanctum supercilious, To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull. Thomas Hood
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. Henry David Thoreau
he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go Source: Internet
A handful of commercial haunted houses in the Valley — Sanctum of Horror and The Crypt/The Vault in Mesa — are taking the year off for pandemic reasons. Source: Internet
Foekema (1996), p29 The right to left sequence is the same direction taken by the devotees in their ritual circumambulation as they wind inward toward the inner sanctum. Source: Internet