SAINTLY


Meaning of SAINTLY in English

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.

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