Synonyms for saintliness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : seynt-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈseɪnt li |
Top 10 synonyms for saintliness Other synonyms for the word saintliness
- asceticism
- beatitude
- blessedness
- chastity
- conduct
- consecration
- devotion
- devoutness
- divineness
- ethicality
- ethicalness
- gentleness
- godliness
- good habits
- goodness
- grace
- hallowedness
- honor
- humility
- ideals
- incorruptibility
- incorruption
- manners
- mercy
- moral code
- mores
- piety
- principles
- probity
- purity
- rectitude
- religiosity
- religiousness
- reverence
- righteousness
- rightness
- sacredness
- sacrosanctity
- saintliness
- sanctity
- solemnity
- spirituality
- standards
- unction
- uprightness
- venerableness
- virtue
- virtuousness
- worship
- worthiness
- zeal
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for saintliness
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