angelical
Adjective
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Adjective
angelical
- Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
- circa 1595 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3, scene 1,
- O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
- Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
- Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
- 1869, Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller, chapter 20,
- She was all angelical gentleness.
- 2005, Joan Dupont, "The Cannes Festival: The faces of Tommy Lee Jones ↗," International Herald Tribune, 21 May (retrieved 2 Nov. 2008),
- "You wouldn't be speaking badly if you said that there was something angelical about the character of Pete Perkins, but one of those angels with a sword," Jones said.
- circa 1595 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3, scene 1,
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