victoriousvocabulary:

HALIDOM

[noun]

1. anything considered holy; a holy place or thing; a sacred or consecrated thing.

2. a sanctuary.

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hāligdōm, from hālig (holy) + –dōm (suffix denoting state, condition, power, dominion, authority, property, right, office or quality).

[BreeAnn Veenstra – The Ceryneian Hind]