angelhoodn.
/ˈeɪn(d)ʒ(ə)lhʊd/, U.S. /ˈeɪndʒəlˌhʊd/ 1. The state or condition of being an angel, or of being like an angel; angelic nature or character.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > quality of being
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1708 C. Gildon New Metamorph. II. vi. vii. 299 His Resolution was not able to support his Angelhood under the pain.
1870 L. Shore & A. Shore Fra Dolcino 166 His Margaret, soft, serene, and good, Her children's type of angelhood.
1920 New-church Rev. Jan. 101 Every individual, man or woman, shall be free to..realize his potential angelhood.
1969 G. R. Besser Balzac's Concept of Genius 66 She has sloughed off her mortal condition, and..has attained the beatific state of ‘angelhood’.
2003 C. Whitehead Colossus of N.Y. 52 The man on her right snoozes amid the jolts and leans his head on her shoulder as if he sensed her angelhood.
2. † a. poetic. An angel, or person likened to one; the embodiment of angelic nature. Obsolete.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > quality of being > personified
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1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 9 'Twas then I knew How ye could pity, my kind angelhood!
1854 E. B. Browning Plea Ragged Schools London in E. B. Browning & R. Browning Two Poems 8 English children pass in bloom All the prettiest made for blessing... Such rose angelhoods, emplumed In such ringlets of pure glory!
1886 T. L. Harris Star-flowers 25 Imperfect angelhoods their fulness find.
b. Angels considered collectively or as a type of being. Now somewhat rare.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > group of
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1857 D. M. Mulock Woman's Thoughts about Women in Chambers's Jrnl. 16 May 311/2 ‘Womanhede’, the most heavenly thing next angelhood, as men tell us when they are courting us.
1886 C. H. Spurgeon Metrop. Tabernacle Pulpit XXXI. 57 The mass of fallen angelhood may have been seduced by the example of Satan.
1920 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 489/1 About Him were the exalted Bodhisattwas, the mighty Disciples, great Arhats all, and all the countless Angelhood.
1943 C. Williams Figure of Beatrice xi. 222 The salutation of angelhood and of manhood to the approaching Salvation.
1999 A. Rountree Heavens Opened iii. 34 I turned to look at the faces of the angels. They looked like the United Nations of angelhood, representing many nationalities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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