Thesaurus: saint

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1. n. A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
2. n. One of the blessed in heaven.
3. n. One canonized by the church.
4. v. t. To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
5. v. i. To act or live as a saint.
6. n. a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
7. n. a person of exceptional holiness
8. n. model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
9. v. hold sacred
10. v. declare (a dead person) to be a saint