Jane Eyre vocabulary

11 Christianity and/or Biblical vocabulary words

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seraph

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a six-winged angel of the Bible/Tanakh. They have the highest rank of all the angels

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painting: by Natalia Goncharova (1914)
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perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph!

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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If ever a rather stout senior partner in a law firm came within an ace of singing like the cherubim and seraphim, he was that rather stout senior partner.

P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.72 (1971)
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Farrow: And may cherabim and seraphim.....
Queen: Out!
Blackadder: My lady, about Lord Farrow.
Queen: I've let him off.
Blackadder: No, no, no, no - you can't. He's a complete cad of the first water.

BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Head
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Then she let her head fall back, fancying she heard in space the music of seraphic harps, and perceived in an azure sky,

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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He told me that as the saddest fact, and eyed me with the one seraph eye he had, the old grief fresh in it.

Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.49 (2004)
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exhibit number one is what the seraphs,

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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He began by alluding to her excellence, a priori, the axiom of her seraphic super-humanity, the revelation of her inexpressible virtues,

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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