saintlingn.
/ˈseɪntlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈseɪntlɪŋ/ A little or petty saint. (Usually contemptuous.)
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1622 J. Boys Wks. (1630) 780 For either they worship his saints as himselfe, or else their owne saintlings and not his saints.
1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 232 All the Glory, which Popish, and other Saintlings, propose by afflicting the Body.
1829 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. 2nd Ser. I. xii. 411 The blindest and tenderest young saintling, that ever was whelped.
1854 M. Oliphant Magdalen Hepburn I. 118 In niches and smaller shrines apart, a host of little saintlings keep their place.
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