saintliness

English

Etymology

From saintly +‎ -ness.

Noun

saintliness (countable and uncountable, plural saintlinesses)

1. The property of being saintly.
   • 1908 February 19, Jack London, “The Bishop”, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 188:

     [H]e was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.