saintliness Betydning & definition

Eksempler på saintliness

• The aura of his saintliness appealed to much deeper spiritual and religious needs of salvation.

• Religious individuals may display an impressive piety, saintliness, tolerance, understanding; they may also display bigotry, self-satisfaction and a terrible retributive appetite.

• They wallowed in subscience and sermons; the adolescent veered from evil to saintliness, without enough good, rational, explorable territory in between.

• While teleological behaviorists and the parents of the saved child may respectively see a good habit and saintliness at work, the woman's own family may feel rather differently.

• I mention that point only to dispel any idea that anybody here, and least of all myself, would wish to claim any degree of saintliness.

• Does he agree that they need saintliness less than a touch of arithmetic?

• There is a bit of the bawd in every saint, and a bit of saintliness in the bawdiest.

• Moreover, saintliness should demand candour.