Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Bible A celestial being having three pairs of wings.
- noun Christianity The first of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the celestial beings described in Isaiah vi. 1–6 as surrounding the throne of Jehovah.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.
- noun (Zoöl.) any one of numerous species of geometrid moths of the genus Lobophora, having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biblical A six-winged
angel ; the highestchoir or order of angels in Christianangelology , ranked abovecherubim , and belowGod . A detailed description can be found at the beginning of Isaiah chapter 6
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In among the swirls of blackness, she could see the bright flashes of weapons, the Shadowhunters brandishing the brilliant white daggers Tessa knew now were called seraph blades, each one brought into shimmering life by the name of an angel.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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They seemed to pierce the sky like shining daggers, and Simon realized where he had seen that material before: in the hard, glasslike weapons the Shadowhunters carried, the ones they called seraph blades.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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They seemed to pierce the sky like shining daggers, and Simon realized where he had seen that material before: in the hard, glasslike weapons the Shadowhunters carried, the ones they called seraph blades.
City of Glass Cassandra Clare 2009
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The word seraph would better express their heavenly attributes.
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The word seraph means "celestial being" and seraphim represent the highest known rank of angels.
WordPress.com News 2009
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The seraph is the divine messenger, and he brings a coal from the altar, and lays that upon the prophet's lips, which is but the symbolical way of saying that the man who is conscious of his own evil will find in himself a blessed despair of being his own healer, and that he has to turn to the divine source, the vision of which has kindled the consciousness, to find there that which will take away the evil.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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He wears boots of red leather, and huge spurs with bell rowels; and he is never seen without the "seraph".
The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850
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You, dear seraph of the Classic Angel Collection, have twenty more days to teach me this before you're off to your heaven under the stairs.
To A Christmas Angel, a triptych Michael Parker 2011
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Poor dear good old Gwynne, tender, sensitive, shrinking, with the face of a seraph and the heart of a maid.
Kempton-Wace Letters 2010
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All of a sudden there was this seraph, this six-winged angel on a cross, floating right in front of me...
The Hill of Crosses James Greer 2011
RachelAnne commented on the word seraph
"...But we loved with a love that was more than love--I and my Annabelle Lee; with a love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me..." (Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
July 15, 2011