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Definition of "saintship" []

  • The characteristics and position of a saint. (noun)

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Use "saintship" in a sentence
  • "This deliverance he called saintship (_arahattam_) or nirvana of which I shall say something below."
  • "(for so we must understand it), whilst we are so; for that he bears any effectual love to us to keep us up to saintship, that is denied."
  • "Amiable and good, but so feeble of intellectual outlook that it would be too much to ask of us, with our Protestant and modern education, to feel anything but indulgent pity for the kind of saintship which she embodies."