saintship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saintship
Example Sentences
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All certificates or attestations of virtues and miracles, the necessary qualifications for saintship, are examined by the Congregation of Rites.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
"I assume you lay no claims to even ordinary saintship?"
From The Colonel of the Red Huzzars by John Reed Scott
Probably one of our silver half-dollars would have purchased all that his saintship left at the peasant Bouman's.
From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Robert Haven Schauffler
They think it not meant for common people in the midst of common life, but for some special saintship.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
II 'But first he replenished his fountain With liquor the best in the sky, And he swore by the word of his saintship That fountain should never run dry.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
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