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Definition of Saintships
1. saintship [n] - See also: saintship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saintships
Literary usage of Saintships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... and to those illustrious saintships — said to have miraculously come to port
in a bark made of stone — they have built, at their own expense, ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"They give you many a rattling peal, And bait you one by one; For, should a treaty
take, their zeal And saintships are undone. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1828)
"... for being embossed all over with the legends of saints, no doubt from
superstitious motives of inducing the patronage of their saintships in favour ot ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1856)
"The characteristics of the former are old ceremonies, rites, usages, traditions,
saintships, as in the Roman Catholic Church ; or old dogmas, creeds, ..."
5. Reminiscences of a War-time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830-1915 by Frederick William Seward (1916)
"Upon its ports he bestowed saintships freely. When he came to this group of what
seemed to be a myriad of little islets, he named them the "Virgin Islands," ..."
6. Reminiscences of a War-time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830-1915 by Frederick William Seward (1916)
"Upon its ports he bestowed saintships freely. When he came to this group of what
seemed to be a myriad of little islets, he named them the "Virgin Islands," ..."
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