Sentence example with the word 'saintliness'

saintliness

angelicalness, godliness, heavenliness, holy-mindedness, morality, probity, purity, righteousness, saintship, seraphicalness, unearthliness, virtuousness

Definition n. the quality of resembling a saint

Last update: August 13, 2015


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A person should have the quality of saintliness in his behavior.   [Please select]

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To the saintliness of the cloister he added the wisdom of the man of the world; he was constant in misfortune, not elated by prosperity, never "carrying things to the sweating-point'," but preserving, in a time of universal corruption, unreality and self-indulgence, a nature sweet, pure, self-denying, unaffected.   [Please select]

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He was obsessed by the ideals of saintliness, and convinced of the supreme importance of not eating too much.   [Please select]

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Gregory and nothing could have exceeded the saintliness of her expression.   [Please select]

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Saintliness had a new incarnation in about every third person I knew.   [Please select]

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Every creative impulse is shadowed by a possessive impulse; even the aspirant to saintliness may be jealous of the more successful saint.   [Please select]

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Well, well; this is as near saintliness as most of us will ever get.   [Please select]

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The picture that forms in my mind of these women is absurd, Arthurian and exact; I see them as great ladies, mediaeval in their saintliness, sharing the pollution of the battle with their champions.   [Please select]

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He belonged to that class of eminent ecclesiastics--and it is by no means a small class--who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability.   [Please select]

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