Word Meanings - UNSAINTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Unbecoming to a saint. Gauden.
Related words: (words related to UNSAINTLY)
- UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - SAINTISM
The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness. Wood. - UNBECOME
To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock. - SAINTOLOGIST
One who writes the lives of saints. - SAINTDOM
The state or character of a saint. Tennyson. - SAINTLINESS
Quality of being saintly. - SAINTISH
Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically. - 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. - 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. - SAINTSHIP
The character or qualities of a saint. - 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. - SAINTLIKE
Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly. Glossed over only with a saintlike show. Dryden. - SAINT
One canonized by the church. Saint Andrew's cross A cross shaped like the letter X. See Illust. 4, under Cross. A low North American shrub (Ascyrum Crux-Andræ, the petals of which have the form of a Saint Andrew's cross. Gray. -- Saint Anthony's - SAINTLY
Like a saint; becoming a holy person. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity. Milton. - 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. - UNSAINT
To deprive of saintship; to deny sanctity to. South. - UNSAINTLY
Unbecoming to a saint. Gauden. - BESAINT
To make a saint of. - EYESAINT; EYE-SAINT
An object of interest to the eye; one wirehaired with the eyes. That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants. Beau. & Fl.