Etymology
Origin of angelhood
Example Sentences
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Turn thou from both That bright, impassive, passive angelhood, And spare to read us backward any more Of the spent hallelujahs!
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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.
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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.
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The English name was probably derived from the Welsh el, a spirit, elf, an element; there is a whole brood of words of this class in the Welsh language, expressing every variety of flowing, gliding, spirituality, devilry, angelhood, and goblinism.
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More important, his audience�a heterogeneous one, not made up of theologians �could not be expected to carry all the minute subdivisions of angelhood in its head.
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