What is "sainthood"

Usage examples of "sainthood".

Esther Summerson is a lady, but she is so much besides that her ladyhood does not detach itself from her sainthood and her angelhood, so as to be conspicuous--if, indeed, conspicuousness may be properly predicated of the quality of a lady.

Joram nor Camber dared defuse the allegations of sainthood with the truth without also giving away the impersonation.

Thou art thrice mine age, And that much nearer sainthood, lady mine, Nathless ye liked my song.

Charlie certainly could not have forgotten his exhortations and assertions about the sainthood of Ninian Hobbes.

Ramsay, was the Church of Rome, and it had an elaborate process of canonization, which gave the most careful consideration to the claims of anyone who was proposed for sainthood, requiring evidence that would support the claim, and usually taking a considerable number of years before a new saint was proclaimed.

He preaches every Sunday about sainthood, and the way in which the Anglican Church has allowed the canonization of saints to lapse ever since the Reformation.

Even if you hold with those who took away Cambers sainthood, surely his kin before him did no harm, that they should deserve such treatment.

Music ceased to be a distilment of life and became, for a lot of people, a substitute for life -- a substitute for a sea-voyage, or the ecstasies of sainthood, or being raped by a cannibal king, or even for an hour with a psychoanalyst or a good movement of the bowels.

Add to this the fact that she was pregnant and sick half the time, and you can understand why sometimes I couldn't tell whether she was ready for sainthood or the funny farm.

She now sees herself as a Holy Woman, proclaiming the sainthood of Ninian Hobbes, and it provides a focus and outlet for her nuttiness far more dramatic and exciting than simply plaguing doctors with her alleged arthritis.