saint
/seɪnt/ verb C2- Synonym of canonize: to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint. · Many Catholics wished to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately after his death.
He/she/it saints · Past sainted · Past participle sainted · -ing form sainting
Verb forms
- Base form
- saint
- He/she/it
- saints
- Past
- sainted
- Past participle
- sainted
- -ing form
- sainting
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Nothing will give greater pleasure to all your old friends; and I know one down there behind the Saint Nicolas citadel who will not be sorry to hear it.”
The prisoner heard the cry, which sounded like the sob of a broken heart, and leaning from the coach he called out, “Good-bye, Mercédès—we shall soon meet again!” Then the vehicle disappeared round one of the turnings of Fort Saint Nicholas.
An old man, decorated with the cross of Saint Louis, now rose and proposed the health of King Louis XVIII.
It was the Marquis de Saint-Méran.
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