saintship

[ seynt-ship ]

noun

1. the qualities or status of a saint.

Word History and Origins

Origin of saintship¹

First recorded in 1600–10; saint + -ship

Example Sentences

He was a member of the Sadhu sect, a "candidate for Saintship," to use the expression of one of our party.

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The four roads to Iddhi are the four bases of Saintship by which it is obtained.

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He had resorted to "ignoble shifts to seem holy, and to get a saintship among the ignorant and wretched people."

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Unhappily for him there is another arbiter of saintship, Who sees deeper than do you, Gervasio.

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At a given moment, he dropped his saintship and appeared as a Christian and the owner of a part of the island of Lanai.

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