Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Born of or sent by heaven.
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Examples
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By the clearer vision vouchsafed me, I beheld Erasmus, fire-flashing, heaven-born, while I — I was merely a clay-born, a son of earth.
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But the power will shift towards the individual & we will no longer have to passively absorb the wisdom of a heaven-born caste of journalists, especially because it's now widely known thanks to blogging & also the efforts of the likes of Nick Davies that they aren't as superior as they imagine themselves to be.
The future of newspapers Mark Reckons 2009
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When these heaven-born sounds had ceased, a door opened in the upper end of the apartment, and they saw Damiotti, standing at the head of two or three steps, sign to them to advance.
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When these heaven-born sounds had ceased, a door opened in the upper end of the apartment, and they saw Damiotti, standing at the head of two or three steps, sign to them to advance.
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Dick Tinto became an assistant; and thus, as is not unusual among heaven-born geniuses in this department of the fine arts, began to paint before he had any notion of drawing.
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He, who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.
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But as for sooth-saying, noble, heaven-born child, of which you ask, it is not lawful for you to learn it, nor for any other of the deathless gods: only the mind of
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This is the suspected “fishing fleet”: marriageable young women sailing out to India in search of eligible bachelors, preferably the so-called “heaven-born” serving in the Indian Civil Service or officers in the Army.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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The brutal world strangles the heaven-born infant at its birth.
The Newcomes 2006
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The loudest peals of heaven-born artillery reverberated through the sky.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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