saintliness


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saint·ly

 (sānt′lē)
adj. saint·li·er, saint·li·est
Of, relating to, resembling, or befitting a saint.
saint′li·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.saintliness - the quality of resembling a saint
good, goodness - moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people"
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Translations
قَداسَه، ملائِكِيَّه
posvátnostsvatost
fromhedhelgenagtighed
életszentség
heilagleiki
azizlikermişlikevliyalık

saintliness

[ˈseɪntlɪnɪs] N → santidad f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

saintliness

n → Heiligkeit f; (fig pej, of person) → frömmlerisches Wesen; the saintliness of his smile → sein lammfrommes Lächeln
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

saintliness

[ˈseɪntlɪnɪs] n → santità
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saint

(seint) , ((before a name) snt) noun
1. (often abbreviated to St , especially when used in the names of places, plants etc) a title given especially by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches to a very good or holy person after his death. Saint Matthew; St John's Road.
2. a very good, kind person. You really are a saint to put up with her.
ˈsaintly adjective
He led a saintly life; a saintly expression.
ˈsaintliness noun
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Robert himself is certainly worth knowing--a really attractive union of manliness and saintliness, of shrewd sense and unworldly aims, and withal with that kindness and pity the absence of which so often abates the actual value of those other gifts.
Briefly, Robert Elsmere, a priest of the Anglican Church, marries a very religious woman; there is the perfection of "mutual love"; at length he has doubts about "historic Christianity"; he gives up his orders; carries his learning, his fine intellect, his goodness, nay, his saintliness, into a kind of Unitarianism; the wife becomes more intolerant than ever; there is a long and faithful effort on both sides, eventually successful, on the part of these mentally [66] divided people, to hold together; ending with the hero's death, the genuine piety and resignation of which is the crowning touch in the author's able, learned, and thoroughly sincere apology for Robert Elsmere's position.
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Under her purity, and saintliness, and culture, and ethereal beauty of soul, she was, in things fundamentally human, just like Lizzie Connolly and all Lizzie Connollys.
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She reminded me that she had kept house ever since she was "so high" for her uncle the priest: a man well-known for his saintliness in a large district extending even beyond Pampeluna.
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Have you ever had to face someone who is simply incarnate Saintliness and Disapproval, who--'
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And the result was, willy-nilly, that he was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.
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But I can almost forgive them, because, as I told you, she is a saint, and a persecution is all that she needs to bring out her saintliness and make her perfect."
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Redgrave makes little effort to disguise her character's displeasure with her current situation - "I haven't been cheerful since 1868, the year of my confirmation" - while Spall suffers each barrage of barbs with wearisome sighs and a stoicism that verges on saintliness.
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After performing Hajj in 1923, he settled down in the village of ipi, situated between Bannu and Razmak, and gained reputation for his saintliness. His political agitation against the British rule was spurred by the 'Islam Bibi case' of 1936.
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A learned gesture, after seeing so many holy cards and visions of saintliness, especially of the supplicant Marian variety?
Praying hands are begging hands
Pope Francis will canonize two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of saintliness for the faithful today.
Pope to canonize El Salvador's Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI
"You're a saint" is never followed by "because you've learned the beliefs you previously held did not reflect reality, and you changed your mind." In addition to being a rather awkward compliment, it also does not reflect how we tend to think of saintliness. Saints tend to be the nicer-than-average people doing nicer-than-average things that can be neatly printed up on prayer cards and stuck to a car visor.
A struggle for sainthood: The struggle of change is the model of saintliness Oscar Romero offers us

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