The word 'sanctum' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a sacred or holy place, often a private or secluded one. Example: The library was his sanctum, his peaceful haven where he could escape from the chaos of the outside world and lose himself in the pages of his favorite books.
He tries to imagine his remains – or, as Beckett puts it, "to conceive of his exuviae" – "as preserved in an urn or other receptacle in some kind person's sanctum or as drifting about like a cloud of randy pollen, but somehow he could not quite bring it off, this simple little flight".
We'll leave you with some stirring words from the inner sanctum of News Corp Australia, about the future of newspapers.
His public relations skills brought him into the inner sanctum of the Vanguard founder, Bill Craig, who became infamous for suggesting it might be necessary to "liquidate the enemy".
And Poles, Czechs and the rest must be happy, for the foreseeable future, to be out of the inner sanctum, even as they struggle to enter the outer one.
Diplomats called contacts in the sanctum to find out what, precisely, had been agreed.
A blast from a huge bomb somehow smuggled into the inner sanctum will sow mistrust and suspicion at all levels.The attack is just the latest blow to Mr Assad: all over the country, turmoil is growing.
Even if prickly Poland and sleazy Hungary could eventually massage their statistics to meet the criteria, would bringing them into the inner sanctum really be advisable?
She had often noticed, as Dalgliesh had, an expression of faint surprise on the faces of the dead.The drawing room, he knew, was not her sanctum.
The civil war had arrived with a vengeance.Since a bomb killed four members of Mr Assad's inner sanctum in Damascus on July 18th, the regime, which had previously been facing a nationwide uprising that was strongest in rural areas, found itself battling rebels in Syria's two main cities.
Inside the temple's inner sanctum, where devotees pay an extra 100 rupees ($1.85) for a front-row spot, an 18-foot statue depicts the god reclining on a five-headed snake.
