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holiness

/hoh-lee-nis/US // ˈhoʊ li nɪs //UK // (ˈhəʊlɪnɪs) //

圣洁,神圣,神圣性,圣洁性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the quality or state of being holy; sanctity.
    • : a title of the pope, formerly used also of other high ecclesiastics.

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Examples

  • There was much laughter, which she describes as “carbonated holiness.”

  • We applaud the parents who are putting in the enormous effort necessary to properly form their kids’ consciences in a culture that has become so hostile to holiness.

  • Nonetheless, that “inward sweetness” awakened the future preacher to a rather uncommon youthful aptitude for holiness.

  • Later, Edwards noted that many of his youngest members “clearly exemplified” what he called the universal holiness of life.

  • I went to Dharamsala and met His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] there.

  • The men are being made saints because of their obvious holiness, and because they are both responsible for medical miracles.

  • “His Holiness and the Vatican have been clear about a range of issues,” Obama said after the meeting.

  • They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.

  • To me the national affectation of piety and holiness resembles a white shirt put on over a dirty skin.

  • His envoys had proposed to refer the knotty point to the decision of His Holiness; but 'this they absolutely declined.'

  • Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

  • What have we to do with such dreamy, self-centred, emotional holiness, here and now in London?