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(noun) - (1) The Catholics tell us that good persons die in the odour of sanctity, and there is a certain truth in the phrase, for when one honoured by the Church dies, it is not unusual to perfume the room with incense.
--Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898
(2) Nunnishness, the habits and manners of nuns.
--Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c.1850
January 14, 2018