What's the difference between archangel and seraph?

Archangel


Definition:

  • (n.) A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.
  • (n.) A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Beautiful and ancient plants, such as spreading bellflower , could become extinct in some places through the escape of variegated yellow archangel from gardens.
  • (2) It is a problem brought from outside, from the EU," said Alexandre Galdava, an Orthodox priest at the Church of Archangel Michael in Tbilisi, who preaches that being gay is "a sexual choice based on debauchery".
  • (3) The Sun itself concluded: “We can’t just carry on with the status quo.” If the Archangel Gabriel came down from heaven and said decriminalising drugs would end war, banish poverty, reduce obesity and defeat child sex abuse, it would make no difference to a British cabinet.
  • (4) [Fuqua rolls up his sleeve to show a tattoo of the archangel Michael wielding his sword against the devil.]
  • (5) Lively accompaniment on the keyboard of the teeth To the soft refrains that Love sings in passionate hearts with Its archangel's voice to enchanting languidness!
  • (6) Archangel (£1.24) If you, like me, are a sucker for a decent dungeon-crawler, Archangel is well worth a look.
  • (7) Burial: Archangel As beautiful, moving and anthemic as dubstep, or indeed any genre of music, got in the noughties.
  • (8) Even back in the mid-60s, Walker wrote haunting songs such as Archangel, hinting at what was to come.
  • (9) To lead the Church of England, you should, ideally, combine the cunning of a Machiavelli with the majesty of the archangel Gabriel, but Welby has his advantages.He has advantages as an outsider.

Seraph


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nowhere does sunsets like Libya, a golden seraphic light falling on the palms and beaches and sparkling sea, bringing pause even to the fighters.
  • (2) Her poem, The Seraph and the Zambesi, out of nearly 7000 entries, won the £250 first prize.
  • (3) On being surprised by a joy so astonishingly sweet, I assumed that it must be forbidden, and if by the light of day I'd come too close to leaning against the sun with seraphs swinging snowy hats, by nightfall I felt bound to check into the nearest cage, drunkenness being the one most conveniently at hand.
  • (4) But it was as a short-story writer that she first came to prominence at the very end of 1951, when she won the Observer short story competition for her surreal and, in places, richly poetic “The Seraph and the Zambesi”.

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