Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition or quality of being a saint.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being a saint; the state of being sainted or canonized; canonization.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state or character of a saint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
sainthood
Etymologies
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saint + -dom
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Examples
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The tale is valuable as a picture of Celtic saintdom; no monkish fabulists would have told such stories of Latin saints.
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Lanteglos is dedicated to St. Wyllow, who is supposed to have had his cell here in the early days of Cornish saintdom, and to have been murdered by a relative who was probably an unrepentant pagan.
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But he, of course, had graduated out of the ordinary level of Hindu-hood into the sacred heights of Swamyhood, in which a man is exempt from the mean limitation of caste, and when the vulgar sins of common Hindu life are transmuted into the ordinary blessings and privileges of saintdom.
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