What does angelage mean?
Angelage means The existence or state of angels..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The existence or state of angels..
Between 1887 and 1907, Mary Hayes Chynoweth, The True Life […] beautiful habilaments and external elegance and stately demeanor are not the indubitable or essential concomitants of angelage […]
Tell me of Angelage, Gabriel. O'er will of mortals we do not preside;
But I was not given to angelage, nor philanthropy, nor sociability that day; and not being well enough acquainted with the confidence game to play it successfully, I asked the burning doctor of divinity to please excuse me , and I walked off to the car and transplanted myself into a seat in the extreme corner, with a whole army of misanthropic ideas prancing within my fastidious brain […]
To him Arthur became the human soul seeking perfection, his castle the symbol of man's slow climb from savagery to angelage.
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Angelage means The existence or state of angels..
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Between 1887 and 1907, Mary Hayes Chynoweth, The True Life […] beautiful habilaments and external elegance and stately demeanor are not the indubitable or essential concomitants of angelage […]
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