seraphim
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seraphim
before 900; Middle English; Old English seraphin < Late Latin (Vulgate) seraphim < Hebrew śərāphīm
Example Sentences
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Supported by a flight of blue seraphim, God presides over an image of the entire world, which the artist has abstracted into concentric circles.
From Washington Post
Her sister seraphim teach her that a woman without love is like an “angel without wings.”
From New York Times
She would not want to be the enemy of these proud seraphim.
From Literature
She’s attended by a half-dozen crimson seraphim and three royal blue cherubim.
From Los Angeles Times
Archaic; from the ecstatic priestesses of Thakra, worshippers of the seraphim, whose ritual dance expressed the dualism of beauty and terror.
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