Word Meanings - SAINTESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female saint. Bp. Fisher.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• SAINTISM
  The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness. Wood.
• SAINTOLOGIST
  One who writes the lives of saints.
• SAINTDOM
  The state or character of a saint. Tennyson.
• SAINTLINESS
  Quality of being saintly.
• FISHERY
  The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters. Abbott. (more info) 1. The business or practice of catching fish; fishing. Addison. 2. A place for catching fish.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• SAINTISH
  Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.
• SAINTHOOD
  1. The state of being a saint; the condition of a saint. Walpole. 2. The order, or united body, of saints; saints, considered collectively. It was supposed he felt no call to anu expedition that might sainthood. Sir W. Scott.
• SAINT-SIMONISM
  A system of socialism in which the state owns all the property and the laborer is entitled to share according to the quality and amount of his work, founded by Saint Simon .
• SAINT-SIMONIANISM
  The principles, doctrines, or practice of the Saint-Simonians; -- called also Saint-Simonism.
• SAINTSHIP
  The character or qualities of a saint.
• FISHERMAN
  A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery. (more info) 1. One whose occupation is to catch fish.
• SAINT-SIMONIAN
  A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in 1825, and who maintained that the principle of property held in common, and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society, are the true remedy for the social evils
• SAINTED
  1. Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious. "A most sainted king." Shak. Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats. Milton. 2. Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.
• SAINTESS
  A female saint. Bp. Fisher.
• SAINTLIKE
  Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly. Glossed over only with a saintlike show. Dryden.
• SAINT
  One canonized by the church. Saint Andrew's cross A cross shaped like the letter X. See Illust. 4, under Cross. A low North American shrub (Ascyrum Crux-Andræ, the petals of which have the form of a Saint Andrew's cross. Gray. -- Saint Anthony's
• SAINTLY
  Like a saint; becoming a holy person. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity. Milton.
• FISHER
  A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family ; the pekan; the "black cat." (more info) 1. One who fishes.
• ALL SAINTS; ALL SAINTS'
  The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
• LATTER-DAY SAINT
  A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
• UNSAINT
  To deprive of saintship; to deny sanctity to. South.
• UNSAINTLY
  Unbecoming to a saint. Gauden.
• KINGFISHER
  Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the family Alcedinidæ. Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by diving and seizing then with the beak; others feed only upon reptiles, insects, etc. About one hundred and fifty species
• BESAINT
  To make a saint of.