heavenlinessn.

a1500 St. Barbara (Lamb. 72) in R. Hamer & V. Russell Suppl. Lives ‘Gilte Legende’ (2000) 430 My life is as a thynge hanged vp on high, alletogeder sette vp to God warde and hevenlynes.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 231/1 Hevenlynesse, celestialeté.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvii. 478 One further marke of the heauenlynes of our Scriptures.

a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xiv. 410 By the holiness and heavenliness of his life and conversation.

1677 F. Bampfield All in One 165 How may a Believer now, have every duty and priviledge to grow up into the spirituality and heavenliness of the duties and priviledges of the latter-day glory?

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi v. i. i. 5/2 The Heavenliness of the Matter, the Efficacy of the Doctrine.

1788 T. Priestley Polhill's Christus in Corde (rev. ed.) ix. 258 There is a conformity to his resurrection in heavenliness of mind.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. vi. iv. 182 Now we feel that in heavenliness of nature he has gone beyond his former self.

1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. xi. 233 She allured both the lover and the hunter; forests of heavenliness were in her flitting eyes.

1914 M. A. Russell Pastor's Wife xxvii. 344 She glowed with the heavenliness, the absolute heavenliness, of being talked to.

1958 A. D. Ritchie Stud. in Hist. & Method Sci. iv. 58 The argument uses analogy to go from the known to the unknown,..assuming that the heavenly bodies are just bodies and their heavenliness not to be taken too seriously.

2003 Financial Times (Nexis) 16 Aug. (Weekend Mag.) 42 This haven of heavenliness does however recognise that more is most definitely more when it comes to pampering and pleasure.

1596 J. Davies Orchestra xii. sig. A5 Goddesse of women, sith your heau'nlinesse Hath now vouchsaf't it selfe to represent To our dim eyes.