Sanctity vs Godliness - What's the difference?
sanctity | godliness | Related terms |
(uncountable) Holiness of life or disposition; saintliness
(uncountable) The condition of being considered sacred; inviolability
(countable) Something considered sacred.
The condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teaching's of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.
* 1562 , The Thirty-Nine Articles , :
* 1604 , Shakespeare, Othello , :
Sanctity is a related term of godliness.
As nouns the difference between sanctity and godliness
is that sanctity is (uncountable) holiness of life or disposition; saintliness while godliness is the condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teaching's of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.sanctity
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*godliness
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- Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God's laws either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage. Therefore it is lawful also for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness .
- Nay, but he prated,
- And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
- Against your honour
- That, with the little godliness I have,
- I did full hard forbear him.