Definition of saint

"saint" in the noun sense

1. saint

a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization

2. saint, holy man, holy person, angel

person of exceptional holiness

3. ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch

model of excellence or perfection of a kind one having no equal

"saint" in the verb sense

1. enshrine, saint

hold sacred

2. canonize, canonise, saint

declare (a dead person) to be a saint

"After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized"

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Quotations for saint

Saint-seducing gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

A young saint, an old devil. [ Proverb ]

A young whore, an old saint. [ Proverb ]

Such a saint, such an offering. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An open door may tempt a saint. [ Proverb ]

Saint abroad, and a devil at home. [ Bunyan ]

A great ceremony for a small saint. [ Proverb ]

Trust not in him that seems a saint. [ Fuller ]

All saint without, all devil within. [ Proverb ]

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. [ Pope ]

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had:
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. [ Pope ]

Young saint, old devil; young devil, old saint. [ Proverb ]

St. Luke was a saint and a physician, yet is dead. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that will not live a saint can never die a martyr. [ Proverb ]

To every saint his own torch, (i.e. his place of honour). [ Italian Proverb ]

The more honest a man is, the less he affects the air of a saint. [ Lavater ]

The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it. [ Chapin ]

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe. [ Wm. Mountford ]

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. [ Lavater ]

Balm that tames all anguish, saint that evil thoughts and aims takest away, and into souls dost creep, like to a breeze from heaven. [ Wordsworth ]

Some folks say it was a miracle. Saint Francis suddenly appeared and knocked the next pitch clean over the fence. But I think it was just a lucky swing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

This century boasts of progress! Have they invented a new mortal sin? Unfortunately there are but seven, as before - the number of the daily falls of a saint, which is very little. [ T. Gautier ]

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint. [ Emerson ]

He that falls into sin, is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls. [ Fuller ]

A thorough miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. [ W. B. Clulow ]

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. [ Chapin ]

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. [ Beecher ]

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. [ Ruskin ]

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us. [ Lowell ]

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, - the wise, the good, or the great man, - very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. [ Joseph Addison ]

saint in Scrabble®

The word saint is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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saint in Words With Friends™

The word saint is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Words containing the sequence saint

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Word Growth involving saint

Shorter words in saint

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Longer words containing saint

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