Saintly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Saintly \Saint"ly\, a. [Compar. {Saintlier}; superl.
     {Saintliest}.]
     Like a saint; becoming a holy person.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity.   --Milton.


     [1913 Webster] Saint Nicholas

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  saintly
       adj : marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel
             or saint; "angelic benificence"; "a beatific smile"; "a
             saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted
             mother" [syn: {angelic}, {angelical}, {beatific}, {saintlike},
              {sainted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "saintly":
     Christlike, Christly, Elysian, God-fearing, angelic, archangelic,
     beatific, beatified, blameless, blessed, blissful, canonized,
     celestial, cherubic, consecrated, dedicated, devoted, devout,
     divine, empyreal, empyrean, glorified, godlike, godly,
     godly-minded, good, hallowed, heavenly, holy, holy-minded, honest,
     in glory, just, martyred, moral, otherworldly, paradisiac,
     paradisial, paradisian, paradisic, pious, pure, pure in heart,
     purehearted, redeemed, right-minded, righteous, sainted, saintlike,
     sanctified, saved, seraph, seraphic, set apart, spiritual,
     spiritual-minded, straight, sublime, unearthly, unworldly, upright,
     upstanding, virtuous, worthy