holies
SayHOH-leezUS/ˈhoʊliz/UK/ˈhəʊliz/
- 1Plural of holy.
Only the high priest crossed into the Holy of Holies, and only on the Day of Atonement.
Behind the veil lay the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant rested.
Note
A plural that does not count. In Holy of Holies it builds a superlative, the holiest among holy things, from the archaic noun holy, meaning 'a thing that is extremely holy.' The phrase names an innermost sanctuary. It can appear in lowercase, as in Franz von Reber and Joseph Thacher Clarke's History of Ancient Art (1882), where it describes a cubical gold-columned chamber. Outside this phrase, holies is almost never used.
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