Etymology
Origin of angelhood
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Melville, Herman
She has too long been assured of her angelhood, and denied her womanhood.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert
Who is there that with unwinking eyes may gaze into the effulgent brilliancy of the perfect angelhood?
From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by Howells, William Dean
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
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