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Definition of saintliness : Quality of being saintly.

Synonyms:

honesty, unimpeachability, creditability, law-abidingness, irreproachability, righteousness, goodness, estimableness, right-mindedness, angelicness, purity, morality, probity, blamelessness, worthiness, upstandingness, respectability, virtuousness, nobility, forthrightness, fairness, trueness, honor

Usage examples:

• In such an atmosphere Julie had almost the halo of saintliness. - "Rousseau Volumes I. and II.", John Morley.
• But, while the attitudes of worship and of saintliness were cramped, often severely so, still on the whole Arthur had thought he was content with Janet just as she was. - "The Second Generation", David Graham Phillips.
• An American lady had once summed him up as a Doctor of Divinity in Dresden china; and there was much to be allowed to the simile when you noted his hands, so shapely and fragile, or his complexion, transparent as old ivory- and still more if you had leisure to observe his saintliness, so delicately attuned to this world. - "Brother Copas", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.