holiness
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- Royaume-Uni//ˈhəʊlinəs//
- États-Unis//ˈhoʊlinəs//
The state or condition of being holy.
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The state or condition of being holy.
R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelenting struggle and change.
“Through the Sacraments, God shares his holiness with us so that we, in turn, can make the world holier,” the conference says on its website.
Étymologie
From Middle English holynesse, holinesse, halinesse, from Old English hāliġnes (“holiness, a holy thing, rites”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailagnassī, equivalent to holy + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian hilligens (“holiness”), Old High German heilagnissi, heilīgnissi (“holiness”), whence Middle High German heilignis (“halidom”).
Formes
- pluriel
- holinesses
holiness · The state or condition of being holy.
Holiness · Used in connection with His or Your to address the leader of…holland · A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.Holland · A historical province of the Netherlands.