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saintly

adj
/ˈseɪntli/

Etymology

From Middle English *saintli (suggested by seyntly (adverb)), equivalent to saint + -ly. Compare saintlike.

  1. inherited from *saintli✻

Definitions

  1. Like or characteristic of a saint

    Like or characteristic of a saint; befitting a holy person; saintlike.

    • Sophie led a saintly life.
    • Since my sother is nothing short of saintly, she fetches me daily from work and transports me here and there.
    • She met more than a quarter of all the American presidents who have ever lived, five popes, hundreds of national leaders, from the saintly, such as Nelson Mandela, to the tyrannical, including Robert Mugabe and Nicolae Ceausescu[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at saintly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01saintly02saint03heaven04blessed05sanctity06saintliness

A definitional loop anchored at saintly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at saintly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA