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
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
Let us dream of the slow great seraphim wings of the good and the great sweet Irish kings!
From Slate • Dec. 27, 2011
All around me are the cherubim, seraphim, continually crying “Holy, holy, holy,” the angels, archangels, that sort of thing.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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