angelage

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noun

The existence or state of angels.

“Between 1887 and 1907, Mary Hayes Chynoweth, The True Life […] beautiful habilaments and external elegance and stately demeanor are not the indubitable or essential concomitants of angelage […]”

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Meanings

nounangelage (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe existence or state of angels.

    Between 1887 and 1907, Mary Hayes Chynoweth, The True Life […] beautiful habilaments and external elegance and stately demeanor are not the indubitable or essential concomitants of angelage […]

    3 more examples

    Tell me of Angelage, Gabriel. O'er will of mortals we do not preside;

    1850, Sylvester Judd, Philo: an Evangeliad, page 22

    But I was not given to angelage, nor philanthropy, nor sociability that day; and not being well enough acquainted with the confidence game to play it successfully, I asked the burning doctor of divinity to please excuse me , and I walked off to the car and transplanted myself into a seat in the extreme corner, with a whole army of misanthropic ideas prancing within my fastidious brain […]

    1881, "A Woman", Facts, page 21

    To him Arthur became the human soul seeking perfection, his castle the symbol of man's slow climb from savagery to angelage.

    1945, Lawrence Emerson Nelson, Our Roving Bible, page 20

Origin

From angel + -age.

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