SAINTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sainted mean? 

• SAINTED (adjective)
  The adjective SAINTED has 1 sense:

1. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint

  Familiarity information: SAINTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAINTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint

Synonyms:

angelic; angelical; beatific; sainted; saintlike; saintly

Context example:

my sainted mother

Similar:

good (morally admirable)

 Context examples 

And yet she loved me—that is the wonder of it!—loved me well enough to remain single all her sainted days just for my sake alone.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By sainted Dick of Hampole! it will be a strange thing if I cannot outshoot that thing of thine, which to my eyes is more like a rat-trap than a bow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This stone was thrown at the sainted Stephen, and the other two are from the Tower of Babel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“May the holy Julian stand by us and the thrice-sainted Christopher!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This, however, I know, that my wife is come of a very sainted race, whom God hath in His wisdom endowed with wondrous powers, so that Tiphaine Raquenel was known throughout Brittany ere ever I first saw her at Dinan.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the sainted Ives! cried Du Guesclin at last, it is time that we spoke of what we are to do this night, for I cannot think that in this wayside auberge there are fit quarters for an honorable company.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The land where their fathers had bled, the home of chivalry and of knightly deeds, the country of gallant men, of courtly women, of princely buildings, of the wise, the polished and the sainted.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)