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Halo :: Halo (n.) A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus..

Sanctity :: Sanctity (n.) A saint or holy being.

Thaumaturgus :: Thaumaturgus (n.) A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.

Jainism :: "Jainism (n.) The heterodox Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each..

Parkleaves :: Parkleaves (n.) A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.

Corposant :: Corposant (n.) St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.

Feretory :: Feretory (n.) A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints..

Sanctimonious :: Sanctimonious (a.) Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious.

Eye-saint :: Eye-saint (n.) An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes.

Sonties :: Sonties (n.) Probably from saintes saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath..

Halwe :: Halwe (n.) A saint.

Seint :: Seint (n.) A saint.

"""fern " :: Fern (a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes. [saints]..

Marabout :: Marabout (n.) A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally..

Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..

Nimbus :: Nimbus (n.) A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5..

Apse :: Apse (n.) A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept..

Socialism :: Socialism (n.) A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism..

Decollation :: Decollation (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist..

Canonize :: Canonize (v. t.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized..

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