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saint·ly
seInt li
比较级:saintlier或more saintly
最高级:saintliest或most saintly
saintliness (n.)
Adjective
1. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint;
"angelic benificence"
"a beatific smile"
"a saintly concern for his fellow men"
"my sainted mother"
"像圣人一样的,适合神圣的人," 1620年代,来自 saint(n.)+ -ly(1)。米德尔顿使用 saintish; 德莱顿使用 saintlike。相关词汇: Saintlily; saintliness。
The first known use of saintly was in 1534
saith
saintshipnoun
sainthood sense 1
saint1 of 2noun
a holy and godly personespecially: one who is declared to be worthy of special honor
a person who is very good especially about helping others
saint2 of 2verb
canonize
saintlyadjective
relating to, resembling, or proper for a saint : holy
1 The religious right’s professed insistence upon “family values” might appear at first blush to be at odds with the anything but saintly personal behavior of many of its leading proponents.
2 Powhida is a dark but garrulous version of the performance artist Marina Abramovic, who, just by sitting silently in her own saintly aura, drew thousands to the Museum of Modern Art last year.
3 Our teacher's lips are set in a gentle and saintly smile.
我们的老师嘴角总是挂着一丝温柔、洁的微笑.
4 The saintly younger man, however, puts up with his captain when he experiences visions of his girlfriend, and Flinth confusingly skips past swaths of time to cram in more moments of brotherly friction.
5 But when a saintly neighbor, played by Leslie Odom Jr., restrains Music, it’s portrayed as an act of kindness: He lies on top of her and says he’s “crushing her” with his love.
6 On the front of a long white dress are the slightly shadowed, downcast heads of two saintly figures.
7 The saintly mood lasts until I refill the milk glass of a tiny, scabrous old lady with wild white hair who looks like she’s been folded into her wheelchair and squished.
8 As indelibly played by Gregory Peck in the 1962 movie, he was the perfect man — the ideal father and a principled idealist, an enlightened, almost saintly believer in justice and fairness.
9 In plays such as "A Man For All Seasons", Cromwell is the calculating villain, responsible for the death of a saintly Thomas More, who stands up against Henry when the king divorces Catherine of Aragon.
10 He is first made more saintly by the focus on the 13th Amendment, as if abolition had been his primary goal.
11 His approach moves away from the conventional idea that movie kids are either horribly mannered, beribboned child stars or saintly simple souls, luminous with non-professional purity and authenticity.
12 There is no chemistry between them--just saintly understanding.
13 Clara is a sanctimonious churchgoer and advertises herself to be a saintly senior citizen.
14 Partly this has to do with its cast, especially Reese Witherspoon, just as good playing saintly as she would be ruthless in “Election” a couple of months later.
15 Early in their marriage, Penny becomes mother to two ambitious and intelligent children, Robert and Rebecca, and a third, Ryan, who is positively saintly.
16 What does matter is the survival of one white and saintly middle-class family.
17 "Playing passive aggressive and waging war with a smile on your face is fun. It's all repression upon repression with a saintly smile," says Chancellor, who plays the imperious widow Lucia.
18 Technically, they’re reliquaries, but they’re also saintly “portraits,” the sitters being the pious sisters Martha and Mary Magdalene of New Testament fame, the one a compulsive doer, the other a “concept person,” a dreamer.
19 In a recent email interview, Mr. Peace discussed his subject’s saintly personality, why repetition plays a prominent role in his style, who he thinks will win this year’s World Cup and more.
20 The reports of denuded grocery stores and mask refuseniks; the paeans to an overworked Somali caregiver and a saintly nurse standing watch over a relative’s hospital bed.
4 虔敬的
5 神圣
deiform holy religious spiritual divine sacred antique blessed heavenly celestial solemn venerable godly consecrate hallowed godlike sacramental sacral sanctimonious numinous sainted ambrosial inviolate Ambrosian hagi- holiness sanctity sanctitude bless sacrament hallow sacralize gracious inviolable supernal hieratic inviolability heavenliness sanctify
6 神圣的
deiform holy religious spiritual divine sacred antique blessed heavenly celestial solemn venerable godly consecrate hallowed godlike sacramental sacral sanctimonious numinous sainted ambrosial inviolate Ambrosian hagio- hiero- gracious inviolable supernal hieratic
7 似圣徒的
8 高尚
high class nice fine classic Christian proper spiritual elegant noble refined distinguished elevated reputable humane honorable respectable sublime lofty cultivated thoroughbred high-toned distingue spiritous Chesterfieldian properly nobly magnanimously tastily high-mindedly exaltedly elevation flair refinement delicacy nobility highness respectability magnanimity sublimity loftiness high-mindedness elevate heighten spiritualize in good taste
9 高尚的
high class nice fine classic Christian proper spiritual elegant noble refined distinguished elevated reputable humane honorable respectable sublime lofty cultivated thoroughbred high-toned distingue spiritous Chesterfieldian
11 圣洁
holy sanctified saintlike sanctity sanctify sinless saintliness sanctification saintdom heavenly minded
13 圣人般的