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noun

Sainthood n.

The state of being a saint; the condition of a saint.

The order, or united body, of saints; saints, considered collectively. "It was supposed he felt no call to any expedition that might endanger the reign of the military sainthood."

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Etymology of 'Sainthood'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sainthood" Quotes from Famous Books

... Thou opened a path, where my young dreams May find fulfilment: there are prophecies Upon her, make me bold. Why comes she not? She should be here by now. Strange, how I shrink— I, who ne'er yet felt fear of man or fiend. Obedience to my will! An awful charge! But yet, to have the training of her sainthood; To watch her rise above this wild world's waves Like floating water-lily, towards heaven's light Opening its virgin snows, with golden eye Mirroring the golden sun; to be her champion, And war with fiends for her; that were ...

— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley

... whose first act was to baptize the woman for fear that she was not a Christian. Let it be said to Nuflo's credit that he objected to this ceremony, arguing that she could not be a saint, with an aureole in token of her sainthood, yet stand in need of being baptized by a priest. A priest—he added, with a little chuckle of malicious pleasure—who was often seen drunk, who cheated at cards, and was sometimes suspected of putting poison on his fighting-cock's ...

— Green Mansions - A Romance of the Tropical Forest • W. H. Hudson

... in one dread hour Were terrible Stains not their sainthood, nor is heaven less sure That they ...

— At Ypres with Best-Dunkley • Thomas Hope Floyd

... experience of war as a non-combatant. 'Why don't you say outright what you think?' he pressed me. 'The Superintendent does do that apparently, I'll say that much for him. Isn't Saint Telemachus still your bright particular star of Christian sainthood in wartime? And isn't Tolstoy still in your eyes a sort of forlorn hope the most hopeful of modern war-time philosophers? Or ...

— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... neophytes, the more tenderness he had for them. Like his Master, he had a partiality for those who were lost, for men whom regular society casts out of its limits, but who with all their crimes and scandals are nearer to sainthood ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

... intelligence as its corner stone, while the basis of the rival faith has been an ideal of ethical perfection. Hence, that process of intellectual gymnastics which so markedly characterizes the higher realms of Hindu sainthood and effort, on the one hand, and the altruistic fervour and outgoing charity of the ideal Christian, on the other. For this reason, also, the great root of bitterness which Hinduism has, from the first, sought to remove ...

— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones

Words linked to "Sainthood" : saint, situation, position, place, spot, post, billet, grouping