holiness
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See also: Holiness
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Etymology[edit]
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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhoʊlinəs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhəʊlinəs/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: ho‧li‧ness
Noun[edit]
holiness (countable and uncountable, plural holinesses)
- The state or condition of being holy.
- 2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun[1]:
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
state or condition of being holy
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