Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A seraph.
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Examples
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Der hat gesechen als ain gaistlicher kunner das angesicht gottes, glich als seraphin vnder den flügel.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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It is in the passion of love, the access of jealousy, the transports of maternal tenderness, the instants of superstition, the way in which they show epidemic and popular notions, that women amaze us; fair as the seraphin of Klopstock, terrible as the fiends of Milton ....
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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It is in the passion of love, the access of jealousy, the transports of maternal tenderness, the instants of superstition, the way in which they show epidemic and popular notions, that women amaze us; fair as the seraphin of Klopstock, terrible as the fiends of Milton ....
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880
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