saintship

American  

[seynt-ship] / ˈseɪnt ʃɪp /

noun

1. the qualities or status of a saint.

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Etymology

Origin of saintship

First recorded in 1600–10; saint + -ship

Example Sentences

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 Clarke, James Freeman

If the virtues of omission constitute saintship, and from a study of the calendar one might so conclude, seek your corona by the way of justice.

From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Major, Charles

If it's saintship to be rude and call other people thieves I'm glad I'm a sinner, that's all.

From Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life by Winslow, Margaret E.

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 Schauffler, Robert Haven

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 Ruskin, John