| 释义 |
saintling|ˈseɪntlɪŋ|
[f. saint n. + -ling.]
A little or petty saint. (Usually contemptuous.)
1622Boys Wks. (1630) 780 For either they worship his saints as himselfe, or else their owne saintlings and not his saints. 1751G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists iii. (1754) 180 All the Glory, which Popish and other Saintlings propose by afflicting the Body. 1829Landor Imag. Conv., Mahomet & Sergius Wks. 1853 I. 443/2 The blindest and tenderest young saintling that ever was whelped. 1854Mrs. Oliphant M. Hepburn I. 118 In niches and smaller shrines apart, a host of little saintlings keep their place. |