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Antonyms for saintliness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : seynt-lee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈseɪnt li



Definition of saintliness

Origin :
  • 1620s, from saint (n.) + -ly (1). Related: Saintliness.
  • As in morality : noun ethics, honesty
  • As in sanctity : noun holiness
  • As in righteousness : noun devotion to a sinless life
  • As in inviolability : noun sanctity
  • As in sacredness : noun holiness
  • As in sacrosanctity : noun holiness
  • As in holiness : noun religiousness
Example sentences :
  • Saintliness had a new incarnation in about every third person I knew.
  • Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin
  • And as for the Frate, whatever we may think of his saintliness, you judge his preaching too narrowly.
  • Extract from : « Romola » by George Eliot
  • This fashion of saintliness may be along with such matters, but it cometh not by their help.
  • Extract from : « In Convent Walls » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • True womanliness is regarded in our country as the saintliness of love.
  • Extract from : « Creative Unity » by Rabindranath Tagore
  • David Archer takes him off, too, with his saintliness and goody-goody airs.
  • Extract from : « Girls of the True Blue » by L. T. Meade
  • What had his philosophy availed him, his saintliness, his hopes for mankind?
  • Extract from : « King Coal » by Upton Sinclair
  • There are degrees in the struggle for saintliness; the journalist was but a postulant.
  • Extract from : « When It Was Dark » by Guy Thorne
  • One touch of saintliness that had rarefied him was dispelled to her naughty content.
  • Extract from : « The Unknown Sea » by Clemence Housman
  • Our reverence for the saintliness leads us almost into a reverence for the crime.
  • Extract from : « The Book of This and That » by Robert Lynd
  • It was, now, the standard of La Clavel, the mantle of the saintliness he had proclaimed.
  • Extract from : « The Bright Shawl » by Joseph Hergesheimer

Synonyms for saintliness

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