Synonyms:
holiness, sanctity, sanctitude
Meaning: the quality of being holy
Usage examples
"Your holiness!" said Gondy; "my friend, you take me for some one else."
He lived an example of holiness to us all: if God, how can our humanity imitate Deity?
"Your holiness," said the curate, "here is the person of whom I had the honor to speak to you."
"Adieu, your holiness," said the mendicant, opening the door and bending low before the prelate.
O Simon Magus, O forlorn disciples, Ye who the things of God, which ought to be The brides of holiness, rapaciously
"No, your holiness, I take you for what you are, that is to say, the coadjutor; I recognized you at the first glance."
His Holiness was now having a run of good fortune, and he learned on the same day that Piombino was taken and that Duke Hercules had given the King of France his assent to the marriage.
The pope was thus satisfied, and the Florentines having so far completed the building of their cathedral church of Santa Reparata, which had been commenced long ago, as to enable them to perform divine service in it, requested his holiness to consecrate it.
The man had wonderful talents and might have a rich congregation and improve himself; but he is persistent in his ideas concerning this holiness movement, and of course a large church like ours wants something to attract and interest instead of such egotistical discourses.
The Count de Villeroy said that "he did not know how any fear could be entertained for a moment, when the court had, to defend itself against the parliament and the citizens of Paris, his holiness the coadjutor, who by a signal could raise an army of curates, church porters and vergers."