Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Heavenly.
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
heaven ;heavenly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Devoutly they worshipped at the shrine of that heavenlike and heaven-given instrument wherewith she could tickle their senses, rejoicing, during the pauses of their envies and hatreds, such among them as were female, and of their lusts and despairs such as were male, in her warm flesh tints and full flesh curves and the draperies withal wherewith, with consummate art, she revealed or enhanced the same.
The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies Ralph Connor 1898
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Where heaven was mixed with heavenlike sea and earth;
Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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And heavenlike earth with heaven; such promise-pledge
Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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It gladdens all things and heavenlike sparkles: nor happily do I long to make an end, but, always going to that which I love, death to me is sweet and sicker.”
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916
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