Meanings
plural saintlinesses
- countableuncountableThe property of being saintly.
[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.
1908 February 19, Jack London, “The Bishop”, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 188Synonyms: angelicalness, godliness, saintlikeness, virtuousness, angelicality, angelicalness, angelicity, angelicness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe property of being saintly.
Origin
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