holiness
noun
the quality or state of being holy; sanctity.
self-holiness
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a word derived from
holiness.
Example Sentences
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They see that those fears tend to take away from them their pitiful old self-holiness, and therefore they resist them with all their might.
From The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan
It is nothing but self-holiness, or the holiness of the old man of sin; for true holiness springs from the belief of the truth, and love to the truth.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
