empyrean

• Then not only will you bring down on yourself the opprobrium of both sides for failing to take a stand at a moment that demands a choice, you will also find in the prevailing media narrative no hook to hang your conciliatory analysis on, no peg for your empyrean perspective, no patience for your it's-all-so-complicated heartsickness. —  Articles
• In vain did the eye strive to find the wreck of some northern cloud in the stainless empyrean, which might bring hope of change and moisture to the oppressive and windless atmosphere. —  The Last Man
• 14:13 On the contrary, Strabus, commenting on the text "In the beginning God created heaven and earth," says: "By heaven he does not mean the visible firmament, but the empyrean, that is, the fiery or intellectual firmament, which is not so styled from its heat, but from its splendor; and which was filled with angels directly it was made I answer that, As was observed (A. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• For the empyrean, if it is anything at all, must be a sensible body. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• So, then, that heaven is called the empyrean, i.e. fiery, not from its heat, but from its brightness. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context