holiness

• (all obsolete) holinesse, holyness, holynesse

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”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊlinəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊlinəs/

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• Hyphenation: ho‧li‧ness

holiness (countable and uncountable, plural holinesses)

1. The state or condition of being holy.
   • 2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun‎:

     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.

• sacrality
• sacredness
• sanctity

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