Etymology
Origin of angelhood
Example Sentences
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Never had he believed fully and utterly in the angelhood of the feminine until now.
From The River's End by James Oliver Curwood
And Niafer rose, a living girl just such as Manuel had remembered for more than a whole year: but with that kiss all memories of paradise and all the traits of angelhood departed from her.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
Mrs. Brill had never owned a servant, and the girl's deviation from angelhood of character and unerring perfection of action in every domestic department were a constant disappointment and grief to the new mistress.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
He sees on through the eons—sees things as they will or may be—regards the objects of his adoration as he will in the angelhood.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various
It was very strange, but most eloquently significant of her own natural angelhood that, though born among brick and mortar in a sea-port, she still pined for unbaked earth and inland grass.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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