What's the difference between sainthood and unsaint?
Sainthood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a saint; the condition of a saint.
(n.) The order, or united body, of saints; saints, considered collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(2) Did he heed the global outpouring of adulation that elevated Mandela, who died aged 95 last December, to virtual sainthood?In that moment, did the president of Zimbabwe reflect on his own legacy and the cold judgment of history?
(3) The decision to grant a controversial figure like Serra sainthood also seems to contradict an apology Francis issued in Bolivia on behalf of the church’s role in colonization and the harm it did to the indigenous population.
(4) Now we are happy, because he will pray for us and this violence we are living through.” Romero’s path to sainthood stalled under popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, but Pope Francis restarted the process in 2013 and declared him a martyr this year.
(5) So long as John XXIII is on the road to sainthood, and Pius is blocked, it is harder to maintain that the two men pursued that same policy.
(6) "They paint the skulls to identify the bones of monks raised to sainthood.
(7) Likewise, Serra’s sainthood follows an apology issued by Pope Francis in Bolivia this summer for the “grave sins … committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God”.
(8) Sanctity is just another mode of imperfection.” The pope should not grant sainthood to a brutal missionary | Rose Aguilar Read more In other words, it is enough to state that the good outweighs the bad.
(9) The cause of his sainthood, which was first proposed in 1930, was long ago assumed to have stalled because of the controversies surrounding his legacy.
(10) Francis said the sainthood ceremony would take place in Washington at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
(11) The Salvadorean archbishop Óscar Romero was beatified on Saturday, the final step before sainthood, 35 years after he was shot dead at the altar by a rightwing death squad for denouncing the oppression of the poor by the military dictatorship.
(12) Obama started his presidency winning the Nobel peace prize, but he ends it deserving some kind of sainthood.
(13) "There's ethical reasons and productive and business reasons … this isn't about running for a sainthood, this about sound commercial principles," he said.
(14) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more Little wonder, then, that Pope Francis’s decision to elevate Serra to sainthood during his visit to Washington this week has revived longstanding controversies and enraged representatives of California’s last surviving Native American populations.
(15) Josep "Pep" Guardiola earned instant Catalan sainthood and Messi can claim to be the winner in his own duel with Ronaldo, who beat him to the title of Fifa world player of the year.
(16) The book’s gay, atheist narrator, Kenneth Toomey, is the brother in law of Carlo Campanati, an Italian cleric who rose to become Gregory XVII, and has become a candidate for sainthood after a miracle that Toomey witnessed.
(17) Unless sainthood is demanded, however, this position is untenable: indeed, those most vociferously pursuing it are often those who bear the greatest responsibility, on their own grounds, for needless death and suffering.
Unsaint
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of saintship; to deny sanctity to.