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holynesse

holynesse 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

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Forms of holynesse

pluralholynesses

Questions about holynesse

What is holynesse the obsolete spelling of?
Holynesse is the obsolete spelling of holiness.

Words near holynesse in the dictionary

  1. holyish
  2. Holyland
  3. Holymoorside
  4. Holymoorside and Walton
  5. holyness
  6. holynesse
  7. holynesses
  8. Holyoak
  9. Holyoake
  10. Holyoaks
  11. Holyoke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: holynesse (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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