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- adjective
comparative form ofheavenly : moreheavenly
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Examples
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Until they ope in Paradise, with clearer, heavenlier light.
War Poetry of the South Various
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Being anointed and all; though a heavenlier heart began some
Felix Randal 1918
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A time of heavenly calm – which, as I look back upon it, grows heavenlier still!
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When heavenlier shapes with Man walked side by side,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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I told her that before she condescended to shine upon this part of the world -- now the heavenlier part -- I had been engaged upon certain researches and discoveries relating to Kentucky birds, especially to the Kentucky warbler.
Aftermath James Lane Allen 1887
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So the little web of motives and cross-motives, for the most part of the commonest earthiest hue, yet shot every here and there by a thread or two of heavenlier stuff, went spinning itself the winter through round the unknowing children.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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“Wrapped in sense, yet dreamed of heavenlier joys.”
The Great German Composers Ferris, George T 1878
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But have you ever seen sweeter compassion, tenderer sympathy, warmer humanity, heavenlier charity than that shown in the family where all are economically equal and no one can want while any other has to give?
A Traveler from Altruria: Romance William Dean Howells 1878
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Made even his soul's high heaven a heavenlier place,
Studies in Song Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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'Twixt God and God had risen, which heavenlier name
Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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