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saintlyness

saintlyness is the alternative spelling of saintliness.

Meaning of saintliness

Noun

saintliness (countable and uncountable, plural saintlinesses)

  1. The property of being saintly.
    • [H]e was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.1908 February 19, Jack London, “The Bishop”, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 188

Origin of saintlyness

From saintly + -ness.

Questions about saintlyness

What is saintlyness the alternative spelling of?
Saintlyness is the alternative spelling of saintliness.

Words near saintlyness in the dictionary

  1. saintliness
  2. saintlinesses
  3. saintling
  4. saintlings
  5. saintly
  6. saintlyness
  7. saintmaker
  8. saintologies
  9. saintology
  10. Saintonge
  11. Saintongeais

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