Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
stylite .
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Examples
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His name was Simeon, and he afterwards grew up to be the celebrated pillar-saint.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Rather will I be a pillar-saint than a whirl of vengeance!
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At the rattle of arms which was now heard there, rose a howl so terrible and multitudinous, that no one thought it came from the pillar-saint.
Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880
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Rather will I be a pillar-saint than a whirl of vengeance!
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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Don't you ever feel as if you should like to have been a pillar-saint in the days when faith was as strong as lye (spelt with a y), instead of being as weak as dish-water?
A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Don't you ever feel as if you should like to have been a pillar-saint in the days when faith was as strong as lye
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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