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SAINTLINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does saintliness mean?
• SAINTLINESS (noun)
The noun SAINTLINESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of resembling a saint
Familiarity information: SAINTLINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of resembling a saint
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("saintliness" is a kind of...):
good; goodness (moral excellence or admirableness)
Derivation:
saintly (marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint)
Context examples
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.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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