Synonyms for holiness
ˈhoʊ li nɪsho·li·ness

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1. Holinessnoun

   Used in connection with His or Your to address to the pope.

   Synonyms:
   sanctity

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1. holiness

   Piety is primarily filial duty, as of children to parents, and hence, in its highest sense, a loving obedience and service to God as the Heavenly Father; pietism often denotes a mystical, sometimes an affected piety; religion is the reverent acknowledgment both in heart and in act of a divine being. Religion, in the fullest and highest sense, includes all the other words of this group. Worship may be external and formal, or it may be the adoring reverence of the human spirit for the divine, seeking outward expression. Devotion, which in its fullest sense is self-consecration, is often used to denote an act of worship, especially prayer or adoration; as, he is engaged in his devotions. Morality is the system and practise of duty as required by the moral law, consisting chiefly in outward acts, and thus may be observed without spiritual rectitude of heart; morality is of necessity included in all true religion, which involves both outward act and spiritual service. Godliness (primarily godlikeness) is a character and spirit like that of God. Holiness is the highest, sinless perfection of any spirit, whether divine or human, tho often used for purity or for consecration. Theology is the science of religion, or the study and scientific statement of all that the human mind can know of God. Faith, strictly the belief and trust which the soul exercises toward God, is often used as a comprehensive word for a whole system of religion considered as the object of faith; as, the Christian faith; the Mohammedan faith.

   Synonyms:
   devotion, faith, godliness, morality, pietism, piety, religion, righteousness, theology, worship

   Antonyms:
   atheism, blasphemy, godlessness, impiety, irreligion, profanity, sacrilege, unbelief, ungodliness, wickedness

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1. holiness, sanctity, sanctitudenoun

   the quality of being holy

   Synonyms:
   sanctity, sanctitude

   Antonyms:
   unholiness

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1. holinessnoun

   Synonyms:
   sanctity, piety, purity, devotion, devoutness, godliness, religiousness

2. holinessnoun

   Synonyms:
   divineness, sacredness

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1. holinessnoun

   Synonyms:
   sanctity, piety, godliness, devoutness, sacredness

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1. List of paraphrases for "holiness":

   sanctity, seigneury, lordship, blessing

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How to use holiness in a sentence?

1. John Owen:

   But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition.

2. Barack Obama:

   I want to thank His Holiness, Pope Francis, whose moral example shows us the importance of pursuing the world as it should be, rather than simply settling for the world as it is.

3. Dag Hammarskjöld:

   In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

4. John Bradford:

   We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principal.

5. Saint Augustine:

   Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.