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holinesse

holinesse is the obsolete spelling of holiness.

Meaning of holiness

Noun

holiness (countable and uncountable, plural holinesses)

  1. The state or condition of being holy.
    • R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelenting struggle and change.2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun

See all 2 meanings of holiness

Origin of holinesse

See holyness and holy.

Questions about holinesse

What is holinesse the obsolete spelling of?
Holinesse is the obsolete spelling of holiness.

Words near holinesse in the dictionary

  1. Holimans
  2. holin
  3. holiness
  4. holiness movement
  5. Holiness-Pentecostal
  6. holinesse
  7. holinesses
  8. holing
  9. holing out
  10. holing up
  11. Holingol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: holinesse (page history and authors); holiness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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