Definitions
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- Resembling an angel.
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of an
angel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some folks possess this admirable, this angellike gift of forgiveness.
The Virginians 2006
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Afterward she shewed me a great number of little virgins, vnder the gouernment of three sober and discreete matrones the leaders to so great delight: Adding thereunto very pleasantly (changing hir angellike countenance) My _Poliphilus_, thou shalt vnderstand, that no earthly creature can enter in heere without a burning torch as thou seest me, either with extreeme loue and great paines, or for the fauour and company of those three matrones.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Some folks possess this admirable, this angellike gift of forgiveness.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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