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  • noun Plural form of archangel.

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Examples

  • “Those who announce the highest things,” the theologian writes, “are called archangels,” and he goes on to point out that it is “the archangel Gabriel who was sent to the Virgin Mary” to announce the blessed event.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • ANGELS -- It could be that the archangels are a little bit like lost children and so maybe they are not all completely evil jerks like Zack.

    Supernatural - Episode 5.04...SPOILERS paxlux 2009

  • His archangels are the weavers of time, and all the others of material nature, uninformed by a soul.

    The Forgotten Threshold 1915

  • Moreover, those who deliver messages of supreme importance are called archangels ….

    Catholic Exchange 2008

  • Of these seven "archangels" which appear in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, only three, Gabriel, Michael and Raphael, are mentioned in the canonical Scriptures.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • His "archangels", the Artist-turned-God, while tending the cooking pots, handed out food to the viewer who was then turned into a participant in this inevitable power relation of the provider and the provided.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

  • But Gabriel is not of the highest order, but of the order of archangels, which is the last but one: wherefore the Church sings: "We know that the archangel Gabriel brought thee a message from God" [* Feast of Purification B.V.M. ix

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

  • As we strolled slowly up the center aisle, we saw portraits of the archangels painted on the left wall.

    A quest for hidden treasure in Chihuahua 2009

  • Uriel, the last of the great archangels to resist temptation, pride, and lust, the only one not to tumble to earth.

    Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011

  • “I said that if you returned the power of the archangels to me, you could ask anything you wanted,” he said in the deep, sonorous voice.

    My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011

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