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  1. noun Christianity A person officially recognized, especially by canonization, as being entitled to public veneration and capable of interceding for people on earth.
  2. noun A person who has died and gone to heaven.
  3. noun A member of any of various religious groups, especially a Latter-Day Saint.
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  • But on the morrow, when the saint was arrayed for his journey, and, with one foot in his sandal, the other on the ground, was ascending his chariot, the boy caught his foot with fast-closing hands, and besought and implored that he might not leave him. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick, by Various
  • One night, when the saint was at his devotions before the image of the blessed Virgin, they assaulted him in great numbers, and beat him so violently, that he was all over bruised, and forced to keep his bed for some days together. —  The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI.
  • The prediction of the saint is accomplished in all its circumstances. —  The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI.
  • She, therefore, only dipped a piece of linen in the blood which exuded; and she took the measure of the body, by which she had a niche made of similar size, on that side of the choir which the religious occupied, in which the image of the saint was afterwards placed. —  The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • "—"But, sir," said some one present, "is it possible that a saint could be a sharper at play? —  The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV. and the Regency
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  1. Middle English seint, from Old French saint, from Late Latin sānctus, from Latin, holy, past participle of sancīre, to consecrate; see sak- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English saint, saynt, seint, seynt, sant, sont, from Old French saint, seint, sainct, masculine, sancte, sainte, feminine, French saint, masculine, sainte, feminine, = Provencal sanct, sant, san, masculine, santa, feminine, = Spanish santo, san, masculine, santa, feminine, = Portuguese santo, são, masculine, santa, feminine, = Italian santo, san, masculine, santa, feminine, holy, sacred, as a noun a saint (= Anglo-Saxon sanct = Dutch sant = German sankt, sanct = Danish Swedish sankt, saint), from Latin sanctus, holy, consecrated, Late Latin as a noun a saint, properly past participle of sancire, render sacred, make holy, akin to sacer, holy, sacred: see sacre. Cf. Sanskrit ✓ sanj, adhere, sakta, attached, devoted. From the same Latin verb are ult. English sanction, sanctify, sanctimony, etc. Cf. corposant, corsaint.
  2. from Middle English *sainten (see sainted), from Old French saintir; from the noun.
 

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