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Saint

noun

A person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization.

Person of exceptional holiness. Synonyms: angel, holy man, holy person.

Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal. Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon.

verb

(past & past part. sainted; pres. part. sainting)

Hold sacred. Synonym: enshrine.

Declare (a dead person) to be a saint. Synonyms: canonise, canonize.

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"Saint" Quotes from Famous Books

... misquote, but it will do. Old Sol has scarce seemed to illumine the Western heavens ere I seek my humble couch. And yet I do not pose as a saint. But stop! If I do not greatly err, the junior Senator from Massachusetts seems restless and eager-eyed. I think he would like to take the floor. I know the signs, having often observed just such a readiness in many a ...

— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald

... live another ten years I expect to be made a saint of myself. "Many a better man has been made a saint of," as old Davie Hume said to his housekeeper when they chalked up "St. David's Street" ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley

... grovelling or visionary schemes of superstition. Fasting and celibacy, the common means of purchasing the divine favor, he condemns with abhorrence, as a criminal rejection of the best gifts of Providence. The saint, in the Magian religion, is obliged to beget children, to plant useful trees, to destroy noxious animals, to convey water to the dry lands of Persia, and to work out his salvation by pursuing all the labors of agriculture. ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon

... the subject of the "sealed packet" left with Mr. Gosford, and contained in effect these words: "If God spares me to return and marry my beloved Kate within a year, I promise to build a church and dedicate it to my patron saint." ...

— The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) • Henry Hawkins Brampton

... life is becoming too prosaic," she said, "since you dreadfully clever people began to discover a reason for everything. Lady Fulda's beauty and goodness would have been enough to convince any man at one time that she is a saint indeed, and privileged to heal the sick and converse with angels; but you ...

— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

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