| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  s nt |
| NOUN: | 1a. abbr. St. or S. Christianity A person officially recognized, especially by canonization, as being entitled to public veneration and capable of interceding for people on earth. b. A person who has died and gone to heaven. c. Saint A member of any of various religious groups, especially a Latter-Day Saint. 2. An extremely virtuous person. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: saint·ed, saint·ing, saints
To name, recognize, or venerate as a saint; canonize. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English seint, from Old French saint, from Late Latin snctus, from Latin, holy, past participle of sanc re, to consecrate. See sak- in Appendix I.
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