sainting
- 1Present participle and gerund of saint.
The Vatican is sainting two figures from the previous century.
Sainting a candidate requires verified miracles attributed to them.
Note
A transitive form that always needs someone to make a saint of, as in sainting two martyrs. The verb stretches from a church's formal act, where canonizing is its exact synonym, to looser reverence, as with admirers sainting a beloved teacher. Like any -ing form it does double duty: after is it builds the progressive (is sainting two figures), and at the head of a clause it acts like a noun (sainting a candidate requires…).
sainting is a form of saint
saint, verb: To formally name or honor someone as a saint; to revere a person as holy. Full entry
- Spelling
- saint → sainting: add -ing
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