seraphic
adjective
of, like, or befitting a seraph.
seraphical
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a variation of
seraphic.
Example Sentences
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He became, says Wood, “the most florid and seraphical preacher in the university,” and appears to have been no less admired as a reader in metaphysics.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
He spoke to them in the language that they loved, but in a tone of the most seraphical disdain and irony.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Edmund Gosse
No taint of Bolshevistic snarling Poisons the atmosphere of Larling, And infants in the throes of teething Become seraphical at Seething.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 by Various
But perhaps the man whose spiritual influence was greatest in medievalism, if not in all the history of Christianity, was Francis of Assisi, who "all seraphical in order rose a sun upon the world."
From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery
The title in 1648 omits the words 'the seraphical saint,' and the text there lacks the last twenty-four lines.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
