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heavenly Adjective 1. Informal wonderful or very enjoyable: a heavenly meal 2. of or occurring in space: a heavenly body 3. of or relating to heaven
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heavenly adjective 1. celestial, holy, divine, blessed, blest, immortal, supernatural, angelic, extraterrestrial, superhuman, godlike, beatific, cherubic, seraphic, supernal (literary) empyrean (poetic) paradisaical << OPPOSITE earthly |
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I think I can still hear this learned and devout man--for his soul was filled with devotion to the dread Being that could hold a universe in subjection to His will--dwelling with delight on all the discoveries among the heavenly bodies, that the recent improvements in science and mechanics have enabled the astronomers to make. The sick and perishing--it was they who despised the body and the earth, and invented the heavenly world, and the redeeming blood-drops; but even those sweet and sad poisons they borrowed from the body and the earth! Gracious heavenly Father--that's the way the ministers say it in church, so I suppose it's all right in private prayer, isn't it? |
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