seraphim
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seraphim
before 900; Middle English; Old English seraphin < Late Latin (Vulgate) seraphim < Hebrew śərāphīm
Example Sentences
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She’s attended by a half-dozen crimson seraphim and three royal blue cherubim.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2018
Its vertical collision of saints and seraphim strongly echoes Caravaggio’s “Seven Acts of Mercy,” and here, too, the high drama of holy suffering is tinged with the violence of the Roman street.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2016
Jeff, be real with me: are we about to see a death-kiss wielding seraphim possessed by Satan descend with great and terrible power on Briarcliff?
From Slate • Jan. 3, 2013
We are given accounts of the cherubim and seraphim that read almost like the reports of a field anthropologist, detailed biographies of the archangels, and a rich seam of angelological trivia.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2012
Archaic; from the ecstatic priestesses of Thakra, worshippers of the seraphim, whose ritual dance expressed the dualism of beauty and terror.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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