saintlier

Example Sentences

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They care about telling themselves that their profession is saintlier than it is, and they’re superior to the reformed liar who wants to work with them.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2014

Or higher, holier, saintlier when, as now, All nature sacerdotal seems, and thou.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

A saintlier pastor than the Reverend Mr. Goodman, D.D., few congregations possessed; but only those members of his audience who were of like age with himself thought him a good preacher.

From Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia by Finnemore, Joseph

Yea, verily am I! a follower of the saintly Ludovick Muggleton, and of the saintlier John Reeve, of whom Ludovick is but the mouthpiece, even as Aaron was of Moses.

From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Johnston, Mary

You will read for yourself, by and by, many others: stories of older Saints, and perhaps of brighter Saints, or it may be even of saintlier Saints than these.

From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)