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Definition of Seraphim
1. n. The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.
Definition of Seraphim
1. Noun. (plural of seraph) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Seraphim
1. seraph [n -S] - See also: seraph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seraphim
Literary usage of Seraphim
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807 by Sir Robert Ker Porter (1809)
"YESTERDAY being the anniversary of the establishment of the order of the seraphim,
all the knights of every order attended, dressed in their appropriate ..."
2. The Intellectual Observer (1864)
"ON THE "seraphim" AND ITS ALLIES. BY HENRY WOODWARD, FXS (With a Tinted Plate.)
PERHAPS there is no class of people more happy in the choice of names for ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"The chief representative of this tendency was the most influential man in the
Synod, seraphim, Archbishop of Tver (1814-9), afterwards (until 1821) of ..."
4. Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology by Babette Deutsch, Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1921)
"... RADIANT RANKS OF seraphim " Radiant ranks of seraphim Stir the air about our
bed. With their windy wings and dim Our hot cheeks are comforted. ..."
5. The Light of the World: And Other Sermons by Phillips Brooks (1890)
"Above it stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings ; with twain he covered ...
Isaiah calls them " the seraphim." They are not angels; they are rather the ..."
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