Archangel
['ɑːkeɪndʒ(ə)l;ɑːk'eɪn-] or ['ɑrk'endʒəl]
Definition
(noun.) an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy.
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Definition
(n.) A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.
(n.) A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).
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Definition
n. an angel of the highest order.—adj. Archangel′ic.
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Examples
- I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Archangel, 28th March, 17--. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Do look at Humphrey: one might fancy him an ugly archangel towering above them in his white surplice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- However, if the archangel waves his flaming sword, we must; still, if I go, my Eve will be with me, and that will comfort me greatly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There you have a dim and mighty archangel fitly set before you! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Say, goddess, what ensued, when Raphael, The affable archangel . George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Crime and the lost archangel generalled the ranks of Pharaoh, and which triumphed? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The children are regular archangels, and I--well, I'm Jo, and never shall be anything else. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Three terrible archangels ever stationed before the throne of Jehovah. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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