sanctity

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Religious concepts: holiness
beatitude
blessed
bread
hallowed
holily
karmic
man cannot live by bread aloneidiom
martyrdom
messianic
numinous
otherworldly
piety
profane
sacredness
sacrilegiously
sacrosanct
sainted
sainthood
visitation
worldliness
Holiness
noun
uk /ˈhəʊ.li.nəs/ us /ˈhoʊ.li.nəs/
 His/Your Holiness
a title used when talking to or about an important religious leader: （对罗马教皇的尊称）陛下
Yes, Your Holiness.是的，教皇陛下。
His Holiness Pope Francis教皇方济各

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Religious titles
beadle
brother
eminence
father
Fr.
grace
Monsignor
mother
Msgr
pandit
pope
rev
Reverend
right
S, s
saint
st
swami
the Very Reverend
Vicar of Christ

holiness | American Dictionary

holiness
noun[ U ]
us/ˈhoʊ·li·nəs/
the quality of being holy or pure:
This temple is a place of great holiness.
Holiness is also a title used of or to the leader of the Roman Catholic Church:
We do not know the views of His Holiness on the subject.

Examples of holiness

holiness
The holiness of the object is what evokes emotional responses of awe, terror, admiration, worship, and so forth.
Your holiness will have heard of our troubles - you cannot have failed to !
Catholics parcel the body parts of saints, believing that through these body parts we approximate the holiness of the saints.
The question is whether it is as strong as the holiness of the land on the other side.
Spiritual blessing includes such qualities as holiness, fulfillment, etc., whether in this world and\\or the next.
It is possible to participate in holy work by being virtuous in the world, without having gifts of holiness.
One was that penitence and holiness were not to be bought at the price of asceticism, a position going against the prevailing wisdom.
For relics represent extraordinary holiness beneath which rests a heroic commitment to living morally.
The big totality therefore has a far greater claim to holiness than any other maximum.
These, then, remained the three main high points of holiness within the church.
This was holiness that derived from the divine presence within the consecrated church, rather than simply from the presence of the people congregated there.
The result would be a life of holiness without the ineffectual (merely human) effort and attendant anxiety of the precisianist strain.
The highest holiness is not to be achieved in solitude.
So @, as conceived materialistically, seems to have at best a mind-dependent holiness.
In this universal graciousness consists the holiness of his will.
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