angelhood

[ eyn-juhl-hood ]

noun

1. the state or condition of being an angel; angelic nature.
2. angels collectively:

   the angelhood of heaven.

3. an angelic being.

Word History and Origins

Origin of angelhood¹

First recorded in 1830–40; angel + -hood

Example Sentences

With the smile of love resting on her brow, she aims to fulfil her mission by scattering flowers along the pathway of life, and inspiring the sterner sex with reverence for her virtues and for the angelhood of her nature.

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Turn thou from both That bright, impassive, passive angelhood, And spare to read us backward any more Of the spent hallelujahs!

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Mrs. Brill had never owned a servant, and the girl's deviation from angelhood of character and unerring perfection of action in every domestic department were a constant disappointment and grief to the new mistress.

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It was very strange, but most eloquently significant of her own natural angelhood that, though born among brick and mortar in a sea-port, she still pined for unbaked earth and inland grass.

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The English name was probably derived from the Welsh el, a spirit, elf, an element; there is a whole brood of words of this class in the Welsh language, expressing every variety of flowing, gliding, spirituality, devilry, angelhood, and goblinism.

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