TERESA OF AVILA Synonyms

• a person devoted to the contemplative life

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

• relating to or resembling mysticism

• relating to or characteristic of mysticism

• someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension

• having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

• the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• a woman religious

• a buoy resembling a cone

• a disputant who advocates reform

• an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel

• having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity

• of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows

• a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience

• concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

• extremely scrupulous and conscientious

• a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization

• person of exceptional holiness

• model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

• hold sacred

• declare (a dead person) to be a saint

• someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology

• writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

• a person who is able to write and has written something

• Spanish mystic and religious reformer; author of religious classics and a Christian saint (1515-1582)