Archangelic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Archangelic is an adjective meaning Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of archangels.
Meaning
Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of archangels.
Example Sentences
Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling-place of angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic.
[…] th’ Archangelic Power prepar’d For swift descent, with him the Cohort bright Of watchful Cherubim;
[…] the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upward, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship […]
But this is as the furious cruelty of Pharaoh made place for the benign virtue of his daughter; as the butchering sentence of Herod raised without doubt many a mother's love into heroic sublimity; as plague, as famine, as fire, as flood, as every curse and every scourge that is wielded by an angry Providence for the chastisement of man, is an appointed instrument for tempering human souls in the seven-times heated furnace of affliction, up to the standard of angelic and archangelic virtue.
Synonyms for archangelic
Depending on context, synonyms include archangelical.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include archangelical, angelic, angelly, angelical, angelick, angelistic.
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