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empyrean
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{n}
synonyms: firmament, welkin ???
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Definition:The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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The empyrean rung With hallelujahs.
Milton.
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"But while our young millionaire dwelt as it were in the Empyrean, something new occurred. One fine morning a man called upon him, calm and severe of aspect, distinguished, but plainly dressed.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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With whom Odette, on the contrary, was but little concerned, thinking only of those people whose position was immediately above her own, rather than in so vague an empyrean.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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