saintly

  • 11saintly — adjective seeming to be completely good and honest, with no faults: a doctor who had led a saintly and blameless life saintliness noun (U) …

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  • 12saintly — adjective he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop Syn: holy, godly, pious, religious, devout, spiritual, prayerful; virtuous, righteous, good, moral, innocent, sinless, guiltless, irreproachable, spotless, uncorrupted, pure …

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  • 13saintly — /ˈseɪntli/ (say sayntlee) adjective (saintlier, saintliest) like, proper to, or befitting a saint: saintly lives. –saintliness, noun …

  • 14saintly — saint ► NOUN 1) a person who is acknowledged as holy or virtuous and regarded in Christian faith as being in heaven after death. 2) a person of exalted virtue who is canonized by the Church after death and who may be the object of veneration and… …

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  • 15saintly — adjective (saintlier; est) Date: 1534 relating to, resembling, or befitting a saint ; holy • saintliness noun …

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  • 16saintly — Synonyms and related words: Christlike, Christly, Elysian, God fearing, angelic, archangelic, beatific, beatified, blameless, blessed, blissful, canonized, celestial, cherubic, consecrated, dedicated, devoted, devout, divine, empyreal, empyrean,… …

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  • 17saintly — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. virtuous, full of good deeds, angelic, righteous, worthy, pious, holy, divine, godly, virtuous, sainted. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. Christian, good, faithful, godly, pious, holy, angelic, spiritual, religious,… …

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  • 18saintly — saint|ly [ seıntli ] adjective very good or holy ╾ saint|li|ness noun uncount …

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  • 19saintly — saint·ly || seɪntlɪ adj. pertaining to a saint; appropriate for a saint; holy, sacred, hallowed …

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  • 20saintly — nastily …

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