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holiness
[ hoh-lee-nis ]
noun
- the quality or state of being holy; sanctity.
Synonyms: saintliness, godliness, blessedness
- (initial capital letter) a title of the pope, formerly used also of other high ecclesiastics (usually preceded by His or Your ).
Holiness
1/ ˈhəʊlɪnɪs /
noun
- preceded byhis or your a title once given to all bishops, but now reserved for the pope
holiness
2/ ˈhəʊlɪnɪs /
noun
- the state or quality of being holy
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- self-holi·ness noun
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Example Sentences
Nonetheless, that “inward sweetness” awakened the future preacher to a rather uncommon youthful aptitude for holiness.
Later, Edwards noted that many of his youngest members “clearly exemplified” what he called the universal holiness of life.
I went to Dharamsala and met His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] there.
The men are being made saints because of their obvious holiness, and because they are both responsible for medical miracles.
“His Holiness and the Vatican have been clear about a range of issues,” Obama said after the meeting.
They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.
To me the national affectation of piety and holiness resembles a white shirt put on over a dirty skin.
His envoys had proposed to refer the knotty point to the decision of His Holiness; but 'this they absolutely declined.'
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
What have we to do with such dreamy, self-centred, emotional holiness, here and now in London?
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