(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”.
Seraphim
Definition:
(pl. ) of Seraph
(n.) The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a letter lambasting homosexuality as "an insult to God and man", the Metropolitan of Piraeus, Seraphim, pleaded with the country's deputy prime minister, Evangelos Venizelos, not to condone gay unions.
(2) "The bishop has to tone down his rhetoric and change position just as he did with the issue of Golden Dawn," he said, referring to Greece's neo-fascist party, which supported by Seraphim succeeded in stopping an Athens theatre company from performing Corpus Christi last year.