seraphim

[ser-uh-fim]

noun

1. a plural of seraph.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seraphim¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English seraphin < Late Latin (Vulgate) seraphim < Hebrew śərāphīm

Example Sentences

Supported by a flight of blue seraphim, God presides over an image of the entire world, which the artist has abstracted into concentric circles.

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Her sister seraphim teach her that a woman without love is like an “angel without wings.”

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She would not want to be the enemy of these proud seraphim.

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She’s attended by a half-dozen crimson seraphim and three royal blue cherubim.

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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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