Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
paradisiac .
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- adjective Of or
resembling paradise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or befitting Paradise
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Examples
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The Californians may be excused for using the term paradisiacal about such scenes.
Our Italy Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The first, or Golden Age, is described as a paradisiacal state, feebly representing the bliss of the first pair in
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The first trees were the most excellent of all, abounding with the choicest fruits, and were called paradisiacal trees, being such as are never seen in any country of the natural world, because none such ever grew or could grow there.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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At the sight of all these things the companions of the angels exclaimed, "Behold heaven in form! wherever we turn our eyes we feel an influx of somewhat celestially-paradisiacal, which is not to be expressed."
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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His answer offers no fairy tales of salvation or a paradisiacal afterlife.
Michael Brenner: The Buddha As Icon Michael Brenner 2011
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His answer offers no fairy tales of salvation or a paradisiacal afterlife.
Michael Brenner: The Buddha As Icon Michael Brenner 2011
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His answer offers no fairy tales of salvation or a paradisiacal afterlife.
Michael Brenner: The Buddha As Icon Michael Brenner 2011
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Fletcher Christian and his conspirators, by contrast, eventually settled on the paradisiacal Pitcairn Island, where life descended into a Hobbesian hell when the new inhabitants turned on one another.
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His answer offers no fairy tales of salvation or a paradisiacal afterlife.
Michael Brenner: The Buddha As Icon Michael Brenner 2011
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His answer offers no fairy tales of salvation or a paradisiacal afterlife.
Michael Brenner: The Buddha As Icon Michael Brenner 2011
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