Synonyms for angelic
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : an-jel-ik |
| Phonetic Transcription : ænˈdʒɛl ɪk |
Top 10 synonyms for angelic Other synonyms for the word angelic
Définition of angelic
Origin :- late 15c., "pertaining to angels," from Old French angelique "angelic" (Modern French angélique (13c.), from Latin angelicus, from Greek angelikos "angelic," from angelos (see angel). Meaning "angel-like" is from late 14c.; sense of "wonderfully pure, sweet" is recorded from early 16c. Related: Angelically.
- adj sweet, kind, and usually beautiful
- They penned me up here with these saintly mothers and these angelic children.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- It is an angelic delicacy, which sets you above all our sex, and even above your own.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Rut they were all accompanied with an ineffable dignity, and an angelic purity.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- With what ecstasy will he contemplate the angelic felicity of conjugal life!
- Extract from : « Nuts and Nutcrackers » by Charles James Lever
- "We'll be angelic, mother," they chorused, and they really meant it.
- Extract from : « Highacres » by Jane Abbott
- She regards him with the angelic modesty of a young girl, but speaks not.
- Extract from : « Shawl-Straps » by Louisa M. Alcott
- But also He is other than angelic, for He is Man (verses 5, 6, 7).
- Extract from : « Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews » by Handley C.G. Moule
- You would have hated it if she had played it with angelic perfection, because you hated her.
- Extract from : « The Story of a Play » by W. D. Howells
- He was my father, the beloved of my angelic mother, and he had never wronged her, never.
- Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz
- It follows, then, that the human soul has a tendency towards the angelic world.
- Extract from : « The Faith of Islam » by Edward Sell
Antonyms for angelic
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