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saintship|ˈseɪnt-ʃɪp|
[f. saint n. + -ship.]
1. The condition or status of a canonized saint.
1631Heylin St. George 206 From thence to prove St. George's Saintship. 1639Fuller Holy War iii. xxii. 150 After his [sc. Dominic's] death, Pope Honorius for his good service bestowed a Saintship on him. 1700Osborn Let. in Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1707) T 4 b, His Body being found so entire would have entitled him to Saintship. 1818Bentham Ch. Eng. 35 Saint Dunstan,..whose Saintship consisted in pulling the unclean spirit by the nose. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. vii. 138 The veneration for Becket's memory, acknowledged by his elevation to the honour of saintship.
2. The condition of being a saint or saintly person; saintliness of life or character.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage 328 These must be belieued for this Saint-ship, although they lie neuer so shamefully. a1675Glanvill Ess. Philos. & Relig. vii. (1676) 31 Each Sect confin'd the Church, Saintship, and Godliness to it self. 1732Pope Ep. Bathurst 349 The Dev'l was piqu'd such saintship to behold. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. xi, Whose..eyes..Might shake the saintship of an anchorite. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, He had felt sure that her face would be mantled with the smile of conscious saintship. 1871Lowell Pope Wks. 1890 IV. 11 From the compulsory saintship..of the Puritans men rushed..to the opposite cant of sensuality.
3. With possessive pron. prefixed, used as a kind of title. Often ironical.
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xv. xcviii. 389 Their Saintships are as capable thereof as sinfull men. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iv. xxvii. 151 Where he did his Devotions to his Saint⁓ship with prayer and fasting in most humble manner. 1717De Foe Mem. Ch. Scot. 15 They pulled St. Giles out of his Throne,..threw his Saintship into the Dirt. 1850P. Crook War of Hats 8 Beside his saintship stands the holy nun, who broke her vows. 1893A. Walters Lotos Eater in Capri vii. 149, I feel bound to throw what light I can upon his saint⁓ship's rather obscure personality. |