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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