Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being heavenly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being heavenly.
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- noun uncountable The state or quality of being heavenly.
- noun countable The result of being heavenly.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Christian life of heavenliness is the first stage of heaven itself.
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We are both from Nairn, a town in the Highlands that rivals Sweden for heavenliness and boasts the most days of sunshine in Scotland.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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It's as though Piero has tried to suggest two registers, one for the worldliness of his patron, and the other for the heavenliness of the angels.
Piero, in Perfect Proportion Willard Spiegelman 2008
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It's as though Piero has tried to suggest two registers, one for the worldliness of his patron, and the other for the heavenliness of the angels.
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She felt herself pulsing around him, melting, and the glorious heavenliness of it put an ecstatic smile on her face.
The Playboy Boss's Chosen Bride Darcy, Emma 2006
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This (I say) heavenliness of hers ... is so impossible to reach unto that I almost begin to submit myself unto the tyranny of despair, not knowing any way of persuasion .... — surely an acute and subtle observation made by a man who had felt what he describes.
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It is hard not to see the movement from heavenliness and holy place to tolchocking on the rot as a kind of decline, not progress.
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My life seems so earthly, so lacking in heavenliness and saintliness!
Adventures in the Land of Canaan Robert Lee Berry
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But this was only because the ironies of fate had discovered that they were too happy, and that something must be done to damage their heavenliness.
Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
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In contrast with this the presence of an altar or nursery shrine, though not a plaything, gives a different tone to play -- a tone of joy and heavenliness that go down into the soul and take root there to grow into something lasting and beautiful.
The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart
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