Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being saintly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Quality of being saintly.

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  • noun The distinguishing property possessed by someone who is considered to be saintly.

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  • noun the quality of resembling a saint

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Examples

  • Moreover, the fuller appreciation of the idea of saintliness, and the higher esteem of the mystical elements in Judaism -- ideas scarcely to be divorced from asceticism -- have helped to confirm the newer attitude.

    The Book of Delight and Other Papers Israel Abrahams 1891

  • How can I possibly live up to that kind of saintliness?

    Archive 2007-04-01 tannaz 2007

  • How can I possibly live up to that kind of saintliness?

    What is this tag business you speak of? tannaz 2007

  • The author, who devotes the last part of his book to the philosophy and the writings of Sri Aurobindo, is more than discreet about the part played by the Mother and presents a picture of Ashram austerity and saintliness which is at variance with this reviewer's memory of the facts.

    Six pillars vs. Scepticism Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • The author, who devotes the last part of his book to the philosophy and the writings of Sri Aurobindo, is more than discreet about the part played by the Mother and presents a picture of Ashram austerity and saintliness which is at variance with this reviewer's memory of the facts.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Bowe realised that he could never reach such "saintliness", but their story, he said, taught him many lessons.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • He does not consider that if certain emotional states, certain developments of character, and what in the highest sense can be called "saintliness" are inherently and by inspection known to be good, then the satisfactory explanation of the world must be an explanation which will admit the "reality" of these values.

    Pascal's Pensées Blaise Pascal 1642

  • Debates over female ordination tempt one to mention women's allegedly inherent nurturing qualities and the saintliness often ascribed to femininity, but I don't believe in any of that.

    Jennifer Armstrong: Why We Need Female Spiritual Leaders Jennifer Armstrong 2011

  • Debates over female ordination tempt one to mention women's allegedly inherent nurturing qualities and the saintliness often ascribed to femininity, but I don't believe in any of that.

    Jennifer Armstrong: Why We Need Female Spiritual Leaders Jennifer Armstrong 2011

  • Debates over female ordination tempt one to mention women's allegedly inherent nurturing qualities and the saintliness often ascribed to femininity, but I don't believe in any of that.

    Jennifer Armstrong: Why We Need Female Spiritual Leaders Jennifer Armstrong 2011

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