Saintliness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being saintly. countable, uncountable

    "[H]e 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."

  2. 2
    the quality of resembling a saint wordnet

Synonyms

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angelicalnessangelicalnessbeauty of holinesschristianitychristlikenesschristliness

Example

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"If feeling sick of the world could by itself grant saintliness, I don't see how I could avoid canonization."

Etymology

From saintly + -ness.

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