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adjective

Heavenly adj.

Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. "As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly."

Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng. "The love of heaven makes one heavenly."

adverb

Heavenly adv.

In a manner resembling that of heaven. "She was heavenly true."

By the influence or agency of heaven. "Out heavenly guided soul shall climb."

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Etymology of 'Heavenly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heavenly" Quotes from Famous Books

... said, "thank the heavenly powers, decidedly better. Temperature appreciably lower, and the pulse more even. Oh! we're on the road very handsomely to get top dog of the devil this bout, believe me, ...

— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet

... without moving from my chair, Rigel, Sirius, Capella and Betelgeuze—the blue, white, yellow and red evolution of so-called lifeless cosmic matter. A few slides from the aquarium at my side reveal an evolutionary sequence to the heavenly host—the simplest of earthly organisms playing fast and loose with the borderland, not only of plants and animals, but of the one and of the many-celled. First a swimming lily, Stentor, a solitary animal bloom, twenty-five ...

— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe

... The heavenly graces had once descended upon the monastic orders, making them ministers of mercy, patterns of celestial life, breathing witnesses of the power of the Spirit in renewing and sanctifying the heart. And then it was that art and wealth and genius poured out their treasures to raise fitting tabernacles ...

— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude

... innocent mind to make reflections as to the advantage of doing what was right in the face of all difficulties. God, she said to herself, evidently was protecting her. It was known in heaven what an effort it had cost her to do her duty to fulfil her father's will, and now heavenly succour was coming, and the difficulties disappearing out of her way. Lucy would have been ready in any case with the most unhesitating readiness to receive and do any kindness to her husband's friend. No idea of jealousy had come into her ...

— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant

... what Perry meant by heavenly bodies or a compass, but he assured us that you might blindfold any man of Pellucidar and carry him to the farthermost corner of the world, yet he would be able to come directly to his own home again by the shortest ...

— At the Earth's Core • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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