English edit

Etymology edit

be- +‎ saint

Verb edit

besaint (third-person singular simple present besaints, present participle besainting, simple past and past participle besainted)

  1. (transitive) To make a saint of.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for besaint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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