holiness


2holiness

adj, often capitalized

Definition of HOLINESS

: emphasizing the doctrine of the second blessing; specifically : of or relating to a perfectionist movement arising in United States Protestantism in the late 19th century

First Known Use of HOLINESS

1888

Other Christian Religious Terms

Pentateuch, blasphemy, curate, doxology, eremite, iconoclasm, liturgy, orison, pneuma, reliquary

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