saintdom

English

Etymology

From saint +‎ -dom.

Noun

saintdom (plural saintdoms)

Synonym of sainthood
- 1833 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 53:
  I will not cease to grasp the hope I hold / Of saintdom, and to clamour, mourn and sob, / Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer, / Have mercy, Lord, and take away my sin.

Anagrams

Donatism, mantoids, monadist

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