Word Meanings - SAINTSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The character or qualities of a saint.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• SAINTISM
  The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness. Wood.
• SAINTOLOGIST
  One who writes the lives of saints.
• SAINTDOM
  The state or character of a saint. Tennyson.
• SAINTLINESS
  Quality of being saintly.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• SAINTISH
  Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• SAINTHOOD
  1. The state of being a saint; the condition of a saint. Walpole. 2. The order, or united body, of saints; saints, considered collectively. It was supposed he felt no call to anu expedition that might sainthood. Sir W. Scott.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• SAINT-SIMONISM
  A system of socialism in which the state owns all the property and the laborer is entitled to share according to the quality and amount of his work, founded by Saint Simon .
• SAINT-SIMONIANISM
  The principles, doctrines, or practice of the Saint-Simonians; -- called also Saint-Simonism.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• SAINTSHIP
  The character or qualities of a saint.
• CHARACTERY
  1. The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Shak. 2. That which is charactered; the meaning. I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad
• SAINT-SIMONIAN
  A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in 1825, and who maintained that the principle of property held in common, and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society, are the true remedy for the social evils
• SAINTED
  1. Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious. "A most sainted king." Shak. Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats. Milton. 2. Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.
• SAINTESS
  A female saint. Bp. Fisher.
• ALL SAINTS; ALL SAINTS'
  The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
• LATTER-DAY SAINT
  A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• UNSAINT
  To deprive of saintship; to deny sanctity to. South.
• UNSAINTLY
  Unbecoming to a saint. Gauden.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• BESAINT
  To make a saint of.