Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint.
1 The idea of the saintlike , long-suffering patient is a big romantic fiction.
2 Had the pastors prayed, all saintlike as they seemed, it had been blasphemy.
3 Noel, who had achieved the most saintlike behaviour during the past week, went also.
4 We sometimes see a wicked man suddenly become saintlike .
5 She was looking sweet and saintlike , and she had a plate of sandwiches in her hand.
6 And yet, what a joy and what a saintlike attitude she manifested all through her life.
7 So he grows more saintlike every day, and has wrought a wondrous change in the king himself.
8 At the foot of the bed sat a silver-haired woman with saintlike face uplifted in resignation and aspiration.
9 To see the elder lady embrace her friend as they parted was something holy- asortof saintlike salutation.
10 His face glowed with a light that seemed saintlike , and a grand look of ineffable love and pity came to his eyes.
11 There, in that supernatural land, he appears as a fair-haired and saintlike young man-fair hair and goodness always go together on the stage.
12 She had a white, demure, saintlike face, smooth black hair, and lips so crimson and full that they seemed to be bursting with blood.
13 The rain falling through sunshine made a silver glory in the air in which he walked saintlike , his hoary locks spangled with the shining baptism.
14 He is one of the few leaders anywhere, to whom friends and enemies apply such adjectives as " saintlike " and "shrewd" with equal justice.
15 An awful picture, truly, but one which is to me irradiated with the love-light which shone in the eyes of "Em's serious, sweet, saintlike face."
16 "I'm sure I should know," he protested, with an involuntary glance at Marie, so saintlike and virginal in her meekly fichued dress.
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