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Example sentences for "sainthood"

Lexicographically close words:
sainfoin; saing; sains; saint; sainted; saintliest; saintliness; saintly; saints; saintship
  1. Hence, that process of intellectual gymnastics which so markedly characterizes the higher realms of Hindu sainthood and effort, on the one hand, and the altruistic fervour and outgoing charity of the ideal Christian, on the other.

  2. He never countenanced the idea that highest sainthood must come through asceticism.

  3. In the exuberant cult offered to saints, there must be some central and absolute authority to determine claims to sainthood and to preserve the faithful from the superstition of wasting devotion on those who have no power of suffrage.

  4. Their constitutions were not ruined by study, or by superfluous sainthood of any kind.

  5. But it is not our superfluous sainthood which is destroying life.

  6. Certainly, if the mental and moral sainthood which we have does not build up the body, it cannot be said that it does any injury to it.

  7. The great ham sandwich barrage against the encroaching sainthood of Saint Harvey of River-bank had begun.

  8. Only those shepherds of the flock who attained to canonized sainthood were honored by statues at the church entrances.

  9. Her extraordinary cult, especially among soldiers during the World War, proves that the thirst for sainthood is as strong as ever in the peoples who went crusading and flung themselves toward heaven in cathedrals.

  10. The vanities of all others may die out, but the vanity of a saint as regards his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

  11. Neither was this allusion to sainthood quite to have been looked for, from his lips.


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