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Definition of Saintliness
1. Noun. The quality of resembling a saint.
Definition of Saintliness
1. n. Quality of being saintly.
Definition of Saintliness
1. Noun. The distinguishing property possessed by someone who is considered to be saintly. ¹
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Definition of Saintliness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Saintliness
Literary usage of Saintliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"... OF saintliness WE have now passed in review the more important of the phenomena
which are regarded as fruits of genuine religion and characteristics of ..."
2. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"... THE VALUE OF saintliness educated classes is the worst moral disease from
which our civilization suffers. I have now said all that I can usefully say ..."
3. The Varieties of religious experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the by William James (1902)
"Were I to parody Kant, I should say that a 'Critique of pure saintliness' must
be our theme. If, in turning to this theme, we could descend upon our subject ..."
4. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1880)
"WHAT is saintliness 1 Who are the saints tA ready answer to the former question
... saintliness is moral purity— freedom from the pollution of evil—from all ..."
5. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... for when women whose only claim to notice was their saintliness of character
and Christian service, or their philanthropy, or their literary gifts, ..."
6. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1884)
"By the memory of his spontaneous grace which made us what we are, let us reach
after that crown of saintliness, the meekness that beareth all things and ..."
7. Studies in Judaism by Solomon Schechter (1908)
"SAINTS AND saintliness' Some two years ago, in a conversation with a lady of the
Jewish persuasion, of high culture and wide reading, she made the remark to ..."
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