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Synonyms for empyrean

Grammar : Adj
Spell : em-puh-ree-uh n, -pahy-, em-pir-ee-uh n, -pahy-ree-
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɛm pəˈri ən, -paɪ-, ɛmˈpɪr i ən, -ˈpaɪ ri-

Définition of empyrean

Origin :
  • mid-14c. (as empyre), from Greek empyros "fiery," from en (see en- (2)) + pyr "fire" (see fire (n.)); confused by early writers with imperial. In Greek cosmology, the highest heaven, the sphere of pure fire; later baptized with a Christian gloss as "the abode of God and the angels."
  • adj heavenly
Example sentences :
  • But the sun shines in the empyrean all the time, wherever the earth may be.
  • Extract from : « Her Mother's Secret » by Emma D. E. N. Southworth
  • Instead of soaring to the empyrean, our feet are firmly planted on the earth.
  • Extract from : « Shelley » by John Addington Symonds
  • The region vast: The empyrean, or tenth and highest heaven of all.
  • Extract from : « The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri » by Dante Alighieri
  • What to me were readers, the public, or all the world, while I was mounting the empyrean.
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete » by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • And they became what may be called an Evanescent Vapor, until all was lost in the Empyrean.
  • Extract from : « The Cassowary » by Stanley Waterloo
  • “Hellgate” is now the orifice in the primum mobile towards the empyrean.
  • Extract from : « Tennyson and His Friends » by Various
  • But Prue's wings have already carried her up again into her empyrean.
  • Extract from : « Doctor Cupid » by Rhoda Broughton
  • Nor was she alarmed 43at his remarkable disappearance into the empyrean.
  • Extract from : « The Judgment of Eve » by May Sinclair
  • He climbs to no Olympus or Valhalla, he wanders through no Empyrean.
  • Extract from : « Robert Browning » by C. H. Herford
  • He saw himself the eyes of an army, the scout of the empyrean.
  • Extract from : « The Last Shot » by Frederick Palmer

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