sainthood
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- noun
- /ˈseɪnθʊd/
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los santos
- His dedication to helping others was often spoken of in conversations about sainthood.
Examples
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Many people believe that acts of kindness and compassion are essential to achieving sainthood.
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But as much as ascetics were revered for the vows they took and strove daily to keep, their religious achievements flourished under the shadow of the earlier ideal of sainthood.
Academic text (2008) -
For living with me for a year and a half, they probably qualify for sainthood by now.
Blog text (6) -
I certainly never numbered sainthood among my burning desires.
Fiction book (1995) -
The most common evidence of sainthood is "miracles" attributed to the prospective saint.
Blog text (25) -
Last year on All Saints' Day, Timothy O'Malley wrote about the Christian vocation to sainthood.
Blog text (18) -
Late in life, however, Augustine came to view miracles in a more positive light, laying the foundations for the strong medieval association of miracles with sainthood.
Academic text (2006) -
As the grand prince of Novgorod and Vladimir, he is known to schoolchildren and adults for his military victories over German and Swedish invaders and his sainthood in the Russian Orthodox Church.
Academic text (2011) -
The community honored her contributions, viewing her as a model of sainthood for future generations.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sainthood combines saint and -hood, where saint comes from Latin sanctus meaning 'holy' and -hood means 'a group or state', as in childhood. So sainthood can mean the whole group of saints, the community of holy people.