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(Noun) 1. The state or quality of being holy, sacred, or belonging to, derived from, or associated with a religion or divine power.

2. Used either as a standard form of address for a leader of a religion (usually the Pope of Alexandria or Rome, or another Patriarch of a Christian denomination; also used for a Tibetan Buddhist Lama by analogy with the Catholic Pope, not from translating a title from the Tibetan language) or sarcastically for a person who is holier-than-thou. Usually in the forms, "Your Holiness" or "His/Her Holiness."

Usage: “I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.”

William Blake (English visionary Mystic, Poet, Painter and Engraver. 1757-1827)

“In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.”

Robert Green Ingersoll (American Statesman and Orator, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism. 1833-1899)

“Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (Scottish writer, creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes, 1859-1930)

“I like His Holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.”

Lord Byron (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)

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(Noun) CORRECTION TO THE FIRST DEFINITION:
1. The state or quality of being holy or sacred, or of belonging to, deriving from, or associating with a religion or divine power.

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