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

"Saintliness" is not unknown in secular forms of life, in the devotion of men to any ideal, despite pain and privation of worldly goods and successes.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

Truly, in his case the most seraphic Saintliness was not forfeited, and we who read his books may well bless God it was so.

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander

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)