Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cherub.
- Cherubic; angelic: as, “her cherubin look,”
- noun Obsolete plural of
cherub .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A cherub.
- adjective obsolete Cherubic; angelic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
cherub . - noun Obsolete form of
cherubim .
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Examples
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And he illumines every stage of his long recital of his past history, showing especial tenderness to Miranda as he reassures her "a cherubin thou wast that didst preserve me".
The Tempest - review 2011
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By my faith, Domine, if you will sup with me in cameris, by cox body, charitatis, nos faciemus bonum cherubin.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Cabalists are asked why it is that none of all the devils do at any time enter into the terrestrial paradise? their answer hath been, is, and will be still, that there is a cherubin standing at the gate thereof with a flame-like glistering sword in his hand.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By my faith, Domine, if you will sup with me in cameris, by cox body, charitatis, nos faciemus bonum cherubin.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Cabalists are asked why it is that none of all the devils do at any time enter into the terrestrial paradise? their answer hath been, is, and will be still, that there is a cherubin standing at the gate thereof with a flame-like glistering sword in his hand.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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QUOTATION: Patience, thou young and rose-lippd cherubin.
Quotations 1919
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L'ainee est belle comme un cherubin; c'est un visage rond, de grands yeux bleus, des levres fines, une bouche riante, la peau la plus blanche et la plus animee, des cheveux chatains qui ceignent un tres joli front.
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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Striding the blast, or heavens cherubin, horsd24
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L'ainee est belle comme un cherubin; c'est un visage rond, de grands yeux bleus, des levres fines, une bouche riante, la peau la plus blanche et la plus animee, des cheveux chatains qui ceignent un tres joli front.
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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I'll make sure there isn't any young-eyed cherubin business about David.
The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901
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