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Meanings of seraphic in English

Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub.

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        Of or relating to an angel of the first order.

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              Usage of seraphic in English
              1
              The sensualist has brutified the seraphic nature with which he was endowed.
              Deerbrook
              2
              The flower and fruit of thought sprang spontaneously from his seraphic soul.
              Shakspere, Personal Recollections
              3
              Eli, standing beside fallen Timothy, wore a seraphic, transfigured look; he glowed.
              The Book of Skulls
              4
              There was never a time when his expression had seemed more seraphic.
              The Vanished Messenger
              5
              Never had that beautiful and enchanting woman looked more seraphic, more ethereal.
              The Collection of Antiquities
              6
              Bowed shoulders are straightened, downcast eyes are raised, sepulchral voices become seraphic.
              The Cathedral
              7
              These were the kind of seraphic pleasures he took in living.
              A Circuit Rider's Wife
              8
              So I smiled and that first file of four beamed seraphic.
              The War Romance of the Salvation Army
              9
              In a dream or vision he had known the ecstasy of seraphic life.
              A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
              10
              Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling-place of angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic.
              New Tabernacle Sermons
              11
              The horrors of mental despair would be followed by gleams of seraphic joy.
              California Sketches, New Series
              12
              He put on an expression of seraphic innocence and swallowed half his vodka.
              The hellfire club
              13
              Anita Adair was created luminous, seraphic, composed of light and emotion.
              We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
              14
              Caroline has had a seraphic expression upon her wasted, transparent face ever since.
              A Changed Man, and Other Tales
              15
              Only thirty-seven when he died, his seraphic beauty was never marred by age.
              Great Artists, Vol 1.: Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer
              16
              There was a seraphic smile on her face-pale ,pure ,andbeautiful as death.
              J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4
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