| 词汇 | saintly |
| 释义 | saintly adjective uk /ˈseɪnt.li/ us /ˈseɪnt.li/ like a saint: 圣徒似的，圣人般的 Her saintly manner concealed a devious mind.她圣徒般的举止掩盖了狡猾的内心。 They elevated him to an almost saintly level.他们把他提升到近乎是圣人的地位。 See saint They saw her as a saintly person. He was described by his neighbours as a saintly old gentleman. She is a woman of saintly patience. Virtue and moral good altruism angel angelic angelically be as pure as the driven snowidiom justifiable justifiably justified loftiness lofty rightly rightness self-forgetful self-forgetfully the road to hell is paved with good intentionsidiom upstanding virtuous virtuously white hat wholesomely saintly | American Dictionarysaintly adjective us/ˈseɪnt·li/ good, kind, and patient: He seemed the gentle, saintly man everyone said he was. Examples of saintlysaintly It is at once a declaration of saintly power, an imaging of the shrine's history and an advertisement of the kinds of services available there. Golding risks reading all but the most saintly individuals out of the community of religious theists. His gallery contains literary portraits of twelve women, four of whom are saintly, four chaste and four lasvicious. In the thirteenth century saintly princesses took on the function of dynastic legitimation. If you do, you are either saintly or pathetic. By telling, writing-and, one might add, experiencing-their visions, the followers actively participate in constructing and upholding the shaykh's saintly status. For in the swiftness of her canonisation and the fragility of her saintly reputation she is without parallel. He was immensely popular and held in almost saintly regard by the majority of the people. And he has that feeling about life, something of course which is saintly. The problem is that saintly actions, which often involve forgoing one's own well-being for the sake of others, may be self-defeating when we have perfect enforcement of moral norms. We may have been saintly and tried as hard as possible to ignore those comments, but we had heard them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But it is a much more serious thing that a man of his saintly character should do things which deserve imprisonment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Martyrs, even if not very saintly ones, are rarely worth making. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is a man of known moderation, and in a moment of weakness one might say that he is of saintly appearance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is obviously not impossible in the sense that millions of perfectly normal people, few of them saintly, in fact achieve it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of saintly These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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