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/hˈɛvənli/ Listen

adjective

Heavenly adj.

Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. "As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly."

Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng. "The love of heaven makes one heavenly."

adverb

Heavenly adv.

In a manner resembling that of heaven. "She was heavenly true."

By the influence or agency of heaven. "Out heavenly guided soul shall climb."

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Etymology of 'Heavenly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heavenly" Quotes from Famous Books

... don't! I wish I could wear a coat myself, so that I could take it off and paint. Oh! the smell of the lovely pipes! It's heavenly, and it's so like home. Really," and she looked about her, "this is the only place I have seen in America that I can breathe in. I've heard of you all winter and I so wanted to come. I would not give dear ...

— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith

... the influence of the twelve signs, has but little, if any, real knowledge of this matter above and beyond the purely physical symbolism above mentioned. And perhaps it is as well that such a benighted condition prevails, and that the Divine, heavenly goddess is unsought and comparatively unknown. The celestial Urania, at least, in such isolation remains pure and undefiled. She is free from the ...

— The Light of Egypt, Volume II • Henry O. Wagner/Belle M. Wagner/Thomas H. Burgoyne

... prompt thee to conceal Thy name and race? or may I hope to know Who, like a heavenly ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... to be born to me," continued Karpathy, and, in a sudden outburst of merriment, he banged the table with his fist, "why, it would be enough to make me live my life over again. I am not superstitious, sir; but when I was lying on my death-bed, a heavenly vision gave me the assurance that, to the wonder of my fellows, I should return from the realm of death, though everybody looked upon me as a dead man already; and the mere fact of my recovering my strength and good humour is proof enough to me that that vision was no false dream. I mean ...

— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai

... not fathomed, and the mystery of his nature laid more of a spell upon her than she liked. Moreover, she could not prevent herself from doing now what she had often blamed others of her sex for doing—from endowing her friend with a kind of heavenly fire, and passing her life before it for ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

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