Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of a seraph; with exalted and burning love or zeal.
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- adverb in a
seraphic manner,purely
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Examples
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Pulling the horse to a halt in the lee of a just-greening larch, she smiled at him seraphically, triumph plain in her eyes.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Pulling the horse to a halt in the lee of a just-greening larch, she smiled at him seraphically, triumph plain in her eyes.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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I want more knowledge 'as he went by, smiling seraphically.
Stoppard's Romance Grafton, Anthony 2007
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Mr Brass would then set the office – door wide open, hum his old tune with great gaiety of heart, and smile seraphically as before.
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The more curious and observant among these many arrivals might witness the unusual sight of a uniformed security guard at each end of the monumental hall, smiling seraphically into the far distance.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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And thus — she was smiling benignly — the agony of the particular sheep, cow, or human being is necessary; and so — she was beaming seraphically at the gilt vane in the distance — we reach the conclusion that ALL is harmony, could we hear it.
Between the Acts 2004
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The more curious and observant among these many arrivals might witness the unusual sight of a uniformed security guard at each end of the monumental hall, smiling seraphically into the far distance.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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The more curious and observant among these many arrivals might witness the unusual sight of a uniformed security guard at each end of the monumental hall, smiling seraphically into the far distance.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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He slept seraphically in a pool of something foul but unidentifiable, whilst nearby Stamatis drew a monarchist knife on Kokolios and threatened to remove his Communist balls, before throwing himself about his neck and swearing eternal brotherhood.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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As though galvanised, the people gathered around the corpse of the smug engineer, his neatly severed head smiling seraphically up through its white powdering of sand.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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