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Sainthood is the state of being a saint — the condition, not the person. In the Catholic Church, when leaders formally say a dead person was holy enough to be called a saint, people say that person was raised to sainthood. More loosely, we use it when a living person is treated as perfectly good, almost too good. The ending -hood means “the state of being”, the same piece as in childhood. You can talk about someone's sainthood; you cannot call the person “a sainthood”.
聖人的身分、聖徒地位
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sainthoodnoun
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The state of being a saint.
- He passed over several archbishops who would traditionally become cardinals to promote Gregory. He also moved Augustine Tolton, who died in 1897 after becoming the first African American priest, one step closer to sainthood.
- Prospective candidates for sainthood normally need to have two miracles attributed to them before they can be canonized.
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Saints collectively.
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A religious practice or institution involving the recognition and veneration of saints.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。