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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : eyn-juh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈeɪn dʒəl |
Definition of angel
Origin :- 14c. fusion of Old English engel (with hard -g-) and Old French angele, both from Latin angelus, from Greek angelos "messenger, envoy, one that announces," possibly related to angaros "mounted courier," both from an unknown Oriental word (Watkins compares Sanskrit ajira- "swift;" Klein suggests Semitic sources). Used in Scriptural translations for Hebrew mal'akh (yehowah) "messenger (of Jehovah)," from base l-'-k "to send." An Old English word for it was aerendgast, literally "errand-spirit."
- Of persons, "loving; lovely," by 1590s. The medieval gold coin (a new issue of the noble, first struck 1465 by Edward VI) was so called for the image of archangel Michael slaying the dragon, which was stamped on it. It was the coin given to patients who had been "touched" for the King's Evil. Angel food cake is from 1881; angel dust "phencyclidine" is from 1968.
- noun attendant of god
- noun sweet, kind person
- “If an angel be a messenger of God, I trow he is one,” said Tibble.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- That I am not now; nor have I been from the moment I beheld this angel of a woman.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- So there is full proof, that she came not from above all at once an angel!
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- If a call come to a man in prison it will be by an angel who can let him out.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- It seemed to my sleepy eyes as if an angel had melted his own door through the wall!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Truly a demon had possessed him: might not an angel have been by him as he slept?
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Diablo's no angel, as you've said, Langdon, and this boy made him a heap worse.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- So the years passed, the angel watching his blooming charge.
- Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field
- The same dream had I,—an angel appearing to me and speaking these very words.
- Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field
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