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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
saintly
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was a saintly man who always put others before himself.
▪ She was a simple, loving and saintly woman.
▪ There were aspects of her life that were not as saintly as the Victorians liked to believe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dear me, thought Franca, then perhaps I might be in danger of actually becoming as saintly as I seem!
▪ Fergus, beautiful and saintly as a baby, grows up to be a wild young man of great charm.
▪ I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures.
▪ Nowadays we live in less saintly times and I long for some one to help me with my ironing.
▪ One of the more saintly characters of the first half of the century was Mary Sherwood.
▪ She looked into his saintly long-lashed eyes.
▪ Shortly before his death he refused the Bishopric of Glasgow and died a saintly death on August 3, 1159.
▪ The saintly abbess spent several fruitful years in that convent, the recipient of extraordinary mystical favors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saintly

Saintly \Saint"ly\, a. [Compar. Saintlier; superl. Saintliest.] Like a saint; becoming a holy person.

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saintly

1620s, from saint (n.) + -ly (1). Related: Saintliness.

Wiktionary
saintly

a. Like or characteristic of a saint; befitting a holy person; saintlike.

WordNet
saintly

adj. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic benificence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother" [syn: angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, sainted]

Wikipedia
Saintly

Saintly (foaled 1992) was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1997. A giant chestnut gelding by Sky Chase out of All Grace (by Sir Tristram), he was bred by his trainer, Bart Cummings, who owned him in partnership with a Malaysian businessman, Dato Tan Chin Nam.

Saintly gained the moniker 'The horse from heaven' due to his name and his partnership with jockey Darren Beadman, who at the time was a proclaimed born-again Christian. Saintly broke his maiden as a two-year-old, on 19 April 1995, and returned in the latter part of the spring, at three, where he won three races, including the Listed Carbine Club Stakes at Flemington. He opened the new year by defeating the well-performed Juggler in the Expressway Stakes, and won the Australian Cup two starts later. He was then placed behind Octagonal in the Rosehill Guineas, the Mercedes Classic, and the Australian Derby, and finished in front of Nothin' Leica Dane and Filante, in what was considered a vintage crop of three-year-olds.

At four, Saintly was runner-up to Filante in the Warwick and the Chelmsford Stakes, won the Hill Stakes at his third run back, and was surprisingly defeated by Adventurous, Hula Flight, and Nothin' Leica Dane in the Craven Plate and The Metropolitan. In Melbourne, however, he found his best form. He charged home to beat Filante in the Cox Plate and backed up 10 days later for an easy win in the Melbourne Cup. He was just the fourth horse to complete the double in the same year, following Nightmarch (1929), Phar Lap (1930), and Rising Fast (1954), and preceding Makybe Diva (2005).

After missing the Japan Cup through illness, Saintly returned in the Orr Stakes, and came from well back on the home turn to defeat Cut Up Rough. Bart Cummings declared Saintly hadn't yet reached his peak as a racehorse, but he broke down without racing again. Over the next 18 months, Cummings made several attempts to get Saintly back to the track, but without success, and he was retired in July 1998. Saintly originally resided at Living Legends, the international home of rest for champion horses (open to the public) in Greenvale, Melbourne, Australia, but as of February 2007, Saintly has returned home to Bart Cummings’ Princes Farm in New South Wales.

Usage examples of "saintly".

We have met, for instance, with several kinds of present-giving, with auguries for the New Year, with processions of carol-singers and well-wishers, with ceremonial feasting that anticipates the Christmas eating and drinking, and with various figures, saintly or monstrous, mimed or merely imagined, which we shall find reappearing at the greatest of winter festivals.

I have fought with memory my whole practicum only to find that it is not the enemy at all, and being an historian is not some saintly burden afser all.

And now, if I do but step into the parlour, I can see her once more, with over eighty years of saintly life behind her, silver-haired, placid-faced, with her dainty ribboned cap, her gold-rimmed glasses, and her woolly shawl with the blue border.

Reb was especially saintly, radiating calm and compassion, and Sulke was especially sour, nervous as a cat.

Thy saintly ministers, must deck themselves With arrogance, and from their large delight In all the beauty of the beauteous earth, And peace of indolent, untempted souls, Deny the hungry outcast a bare word.

Little children, spotless youths and maidens who have known no malice or guile, the saintly few among mature men and women who by the untempted elevation and serenity of their temper have kept their integrity unmarred and their robes unsullied, enter by this nearest and easiest gate.

A few saintly personalities stand out amidst a roiling sea of jealousies, ambition, backbiting, suppression of dissent, and absurd conceits.

Using a swell of donations, the Jihad Council had commissioned a titanic statue of the saintly Manion the Innocent, which would welcome all vessels arriving from the dangers of deep space.

When the holy and gentle poet, patriot, and Christian came out of his prison, with a broken constitution and a wounded heart, into a bleak and prizeless world, the Marchioness--who had long been a mother to the poor of her native city, an assiduous visitor of the jails, a saintly benefactress to all the unhappy whom her charities could reach--drawn to him by a strong interest of respect and pity, gave him a home in her house, and supplied him with congenial employment.

It was nearly dark, and the choir behind the pulpitum was wrapped in gloom, in the midst of which twinkled a few lights before the high altar and the various saintly shrines.

She seems to be so saintly, so remote, but she knows the urgencies of the flesh and to what, unreined, they lead.

The winged serpent is an Egyptian sunsymbol, mac Art, and far older than the winged disc of Atun that the saintly if impractical Pharoah Akhenatun caused to be worshiped.

I had gone to get a bobache, a dripping plate on a chandelier, and the man who made the repairs was a saintly old man with a white halo of hair that the afternoon sun caught and made blaze.

Wiry and pale, Sirhan wears the robes of a Berber goatherd on his body and the numinous halo of a utility fogbank above his head: In his abstraction, he vaguely resembles a saintly shepherd in a post-singularity nativity play.

One thinks of the Polish mystic, Father Maximilian Kolbe, a saintly figure who died under the Nazis at Auschwitz.