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plural temenoi or temene
(chiefly Ancient Greece) A piece of ground surrounding or adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct. quotations examples
The three spheres – political, commercial, spiritual – intersected, and at the very centre of their conjunction was, and is, the Meccan temenos.
2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 123