saintship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saintship
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Where is found that earthly saintship Can consort with devils' din?
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
How did saints feel themselves, I wonder, about their saintship?
From Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston by John Ruskin
If you find her contrite and yielding, use your victory with moderation; and let her down easily from her giddy elevation of saintship to the sober, quiet, even path of rational religion, and domestic duty.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope
It was as if he had said: "You are not the saint that Edith is, nor yet the connoisseur in saintship that I am."
From The Helpmate by May Sinclair
O the Prior of Roche Was without reproach While with saintly monks he chanted; But when from the mass He had turned his face, The prior his saintship scanted.
From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper
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