Saintly Synonyms and Antonyms

Saintly Sentence Examples

• It's when my thoughts wander to that saintly man.

• Its dedication recalls the transportation of the body of the saintly bishop of Lindisfarne from its shrine at Durham by the monks of that foundation to Lindisfarne, when in fear of attack from William the Conqueror.

• Thus passed several years; he was still young, but his new mode of life produced its effects on a man of his imagination and saintly piety.

• Their first and most notable victim was Philip, the saintly metropolitan of Moscow, who was strangled for condemning the oprichina as an unchristian institution, and refusing to bless the tsar (1569).

• His influence was due as much to his saintly character and to the gentleness of his manners as to the force of his reasoning.