firmament
[fur-muh-muh nt]
noun
the vault of heaven; sky.
Origin of firmament
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Contemporary Examples of firmament
The reader leaves with a better sense of the firmament and frontline fights occurring in the current independent movement.
But his disappearance from the Washington firmament does not mean that the work he used to do is being left undone.
Historical Examples of firmament
The star of his genius mounted, without a cloud to obscure it, in the firmament of the Church.
The Lives of the Saints, Volume III (of 16): MarchSabine Baring-Gould
The firmament possesses but one sun, and the land of Irk but one king.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of IspahanJames Morier
The sky was brilliant with stars, as if the firmament were strewn with silver dust.
Captain CanotBrantz Mayer
It looks to me like the firmament at night, with all the stars a-shining.
The Long RollMary Johnston
That Auntie Jan loved them both with her whole heart was now one of the fixed stars in Tony's firmament of beliefs.
Jan and Her JobL. Allen Harker
firmament
noun
Word Origin for firmament
C13: from Late Latin firmāmentum sky (considered as fixed above the earth), from Latin: prop, support, from firmāre to make firm 1
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