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Definition of Sainthood
1. Noun. Saints collectively.
2. Noun. The status and dignity of a saint.
Derivative terms: Saint, Saint, Saint
Definition of Sainthood
1. n. The state of being a saint; the condition of a saint.
Definition of Sainthood
1. Noun. the state of being a saint ¹
2. Noun. saints collectively ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sainthood
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sainthood
Literary usage of Sainthood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev by Phillips Brooks (1893)
"T WOULD present true sainthood to you as the strong chain of God's presence ...
This unity which the line of sainthood gives to history is the great point ..."
2. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"Evidences of sainthood.—(1) Stigmatization. Soon after St. Francis' death in AD
1226, the legend spread that two years before, during a forty days' fast in ..."
3. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"Evidences of sainthood.—(1) Stigmatization. Soon after St. Francia' death in AD
1226, the legend spread that two years before, during a forty days' fast in ..."
4. The Spiritual Life: Studies in the Science of Religion by George Albert Coe (1900)
"And first let us undertake a Psychological Analysis of sainthood. If you will
run over in your mind the qualities of mind and character which the Church, ..."
5. The Spiritual Life: Studies in the Science of Religion by George Albert Coe (1900)
"And first let us undertake a Psychological Analysis of sainthood. If you will
run over in your mind the qualities of mind and character which the Church, ..."
6. Culture and Restraint by Hugh Black (1901)
"IX A MEDIAEVAL CONCEPTION OF sainthood A FURTHER evidence of the harmful legacy
from the ascetic ideal is to be found in the Church idea of a saint, ..."
7. Christian Believing and Living: Sermons by Frederic Dan Huntington (1860)
"sainthood IN CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD. THE SAINTS THAT ARE OF CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD. Phil.
iv. 22. THIS incidental allusion informs us that already, in Paul's day, ..."
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