saintliness

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And when you watch John Wulp’s “The Saintliness of Margery Kempe,” a curiosity of a comedy inspired by the memoir, you know that this is something its grand, restless, flailingly ambitious heroine absolutely would do.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2018

Saintliness, like beauty, exists in the eye of the beholder.

From Time Magazine Archive

Have you ever had to face someone who is simply incarnate Saintliness and Disapproval, who—' 'Are you forgetting that I was engaged to you for several weeks?'

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Saintliness does not set well upon you, madam.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

Saintliness includes goodness and sacrifice, and excludes all the earthly impure spirits of selfishness, pride, quarrels and conquests.

From The Agony of the Church (1917) by Velimirović, Nikolai