saintship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saintship
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The Dev’l was piq’d such saintship to behold, And long’d to tempt him, like good Job of old; But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts, by making rich, not making poor.”
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
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 Margaret E. Winslow
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
Whether she was beautiful and beloved, and put away earthly vanities for a holy life, or old and ugly, and bore her lot with a patience that won saintship, I do not know.
From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton
All the old theories of saintship are revived in him.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
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