Word Meanings - SAINTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a saint; becoming a holy person. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SAINTLY)

• Devout
• religious
• pious
• godly
• saintly
• holy
• prayerful

Related words: (words related to SAINTLY)

• DEVOUT
  1. Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious. A devout man, and one that feared God. Acts x. 2. We must be constant and devout in the worship of God.
• DEVOUTFUL
  1. Full of devotion. 2. Sacred. To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston.
• DEVOUTNESS
  Quality or state of being devout.
• PRAYERFUL
  Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional. "The prayerful man." J. S. Blackie. -- Prayer"ful*ly, adv. -- Prayer"ful*ness, n.
• DEVOUTLESS
  Destitute of devotion. -- De*vout"less*ly, adv. -- De*vout"less*ness, n.
• RELIGIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. Our law forbids
• RELIGIOUSLY
  In a religious manner. Drayton.
• RELIGIOUSNESS
  The quality of being religious.
• PIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly. "Pious hearts." Milton. "Pious poetry." Johnson. Where was the martial brother's pious care Pope. 2. Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted
• PIOUSLY
  In a pious manner.
• GODLY
  Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life. For godly sorrow worketh repentance. 2 Cor. vii. 10.
• GODLYHEAD
  Goodness. Spenser.
• DEVOUTLY
  1. In a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously. Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly. Shak. 2. Sincerely; solemnly; earnestly. 'T is a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak.
• SAINTLY
  Like a saint; becoming a holy person. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity. Milton.
• IRRELIGIOUS
  1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious
• UNSAINTLY
  Unbecoming to a saint. Gauden.
• IRRELIGIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
• COPIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. Dryden. Syn. -- Abudance; plenty; richness; exuberance.
• UNRELIGIOUS
  Irreligious. Wordsworth.
• COPIOUSLY
  In a copious manner.
• UNGODLY
  1. Not godly; not having regard for God; disobedient to God; wicked; impious; sinful. 2. Polluted by sin or wickedness. The hours of this ungodly day. Shak. -- Un*god"li*ly, adv. -- Un*god"li*ness, n.
• IMPIOUS
  Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language. When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. Addison.
• COPIOUS
  Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful. Kindly pours its copious treasures forth. Thomson. Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song. Milton. Syn. -- Ample; abundant; plentiful; plenteous;