saintliness
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈseɪntlinəs/
:
santidad
- James enables us to confront the variety and power of religious "experts"—examples of conversion, saintliness, and mysticism—and their collective ability to break the hold of dogmatism and skepticism.
- saintliness and mysticism
Examples
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He still felt troubled by the world around him, especially when people failed to see his saintliness or disagreed with him about what he thought was the truth.
Blog text (5) -
Although I might not think Christian saintliness or a Kantian good will particularly compelling, I can at least have those experiences (the experience of loving another as one loves oneself, or the immediate claim of honesty) that lead some to think of them as the telos of human life.
Academic text (2003) -
That is saintliness of the highest order, I think.
Fiction book (1992) -
Change requires neither saintliness nor genius.
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But, at least now, I have no illusions about his saintliness.
Blog text (9) -
Known as the "lady with the lamp," Nightingale combined saintliness with hygienic knowledge to produce the ideal of the modern nurse.
Academic text (2002) -
Sheep represent simplicity, sacrifice, innocence, saintliness, righteousness.
Academic text (2004) -
The development of the doctrine of purgatory enabled the layperson to cope with the ascetical ideal of saintliness by extending the time in which divine judgment could be worked out for the layperson.
Academic text (2008) -
Both James and Steiner point to the transformative experience of figures such as Buddha, Augustine, Eckhart, and Luther as evidence for a spiritual reality as the source of the kinds of religious experience that James refers to as conversion, saintliness, and mysticism.
Academic text (1991) -
The charity worker's saintliness inspired others to join her cause.
Synonyms
259
3.8
A good personal quality like honesty or kindness
83
6.5
Being good and fair in how you act
82
1.0
Kind, honest, and fair behaviour in a person
70
5.8
A state of being pure and close to God or to religious things
66
7.2
Being holy or sacred and treated with great respect
23
7.7
A strong religious feeling and respect that leads to regular prayer and kind actions
10
7.3
A deep religious feeling and strong respect for God
5
5.8
A quality that makes people treat something with deep religious respect
1
7.9
A deep religious feeling shown in prayer and good deeds
A state of being holy or sacred
Being holy or very important in a religion
Being worthy of respect because of age, wisdom, or importance
How Virtuous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Saintliness comes from saint, a word for a very 'holy' person, which goes back to the old Latin word sanctus 'holy', and the ending -liness means 'the quality of being', as in kindness. So, saintliness is the quality of being saintly or holy.