Definitions
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- adj. Resembling or characteristic of an angel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- Resembling an angel.
Etymologies
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angel + -like
Examples
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Afterward she shewed me a great number of little virgins, vnder the gouernment of three sober and discreete matrones the leaders to so great delight: Adding thereunto very pleasantly (changing hir angellike countenance) My _Poliphilus_, thou shalt vnderstand, that no earthly creature can enter in heere without a burning torch as thou seest me, either with extreeme loue and great paines, or for the fauour and company of those three matrones.
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Some folks possess this admirable, this angellike gift of forgiveness.
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