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Definition of Sainthoods
1. sainthood [n] - See also: sainthood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sainthoods
Literary usage of Sainthoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Perennials: Selections from the Writings of by Phillips Brooks (1898)
"The sainthoods of the fireside and the market-place!—they wear no glory around
their heads; they do their duties in the strength of God; they have their ..."
2. Sermons by Phillips Brooks (1878)
"... was so high as that in which we thank God that we live), as spirituality grows
more common the sainthoods stand out less marked from their surroundings. ..."
3. Lectures on Preaching, Delivered Before the Divinity School of Yale College by Phillips Brooks (1877)
"... of sainthoods among the most obscure souls before which we stand ashamed.
No manly man is satis- lied with any ex-officio estimate of his character. ..."
4. Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev by Phillips Brooks (1893)
"That saint again lighted his fire at some flame before him ; and so the power of
the sainthoods animates and fills the world. So holiness and purity, ..."
5. The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings, Selected Chiefly from Unpublished by Phillips Brooks (1897)
"It is the power of the sainthoods. There is that in man to which they everlastingly
appeal. It ought to make any man tremble for his own nature if they do ..."
6. Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley by Charles Kingsley (1899)
"Gertie, we were in luck, Or both our noses would have been snapped off By those
two she-dragons; how their sainthoods squealed To see a brace of beards peep ..."
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