Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Of or relating to a seraph; angelic, especially in the highest order: Describes something pertaining to or resembling a seraph, an angel of the highest rank, often characterized by supreme purity, beauty, or bliss.
   • Supremely serene, blissful, or pure: Used to describe a state, expression, or quality of celestial or exalted happiness and innocence.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The painting depicted the saint with a seraphical smile, radiating divine peace.
  • The choir's music had an almost seraphical quality, lifting the spirits of all who heard it.
  • He imagined a seraphical presence in the room, a feeling of overwhelming purity and light.

Advanced Usage

• Seraphical love: A love that is pure, selfless, and celestial in nature.

  • Their bond was described not as a earthly passion, but as a seraphical love.

• Seraphical hierarchy: Pertaining to the highest order of angels in theological tradition.

  • Theologians wrote extensively about the seraphical hierarchy surrounding the throne.

Variants and Related Words

• Seraphic (adj): The more common variant, identical in meaning to 'seraphical'.

  • The child's face was lit with a seraphic joy.

• Seraph (n): A type of celestial being or angel of the highest order.

  • In the vision, a six-winged seraph appeared before the prophet.

Synonyms

• Angelic: Of or relating to angels; resembling an angel in purity or beauty.
• Celestial: Pertaining to the sky or heaven; supremely good.
• Beatific: Showing or producing great joy, blessedness, or holiness.
• Ethereal: Extremely delicate and light, seeming too perfect for this world.

Related Phrases

• Seraphic beauty: A beauty that is heavenly, pure, and sublime.

  • The sculpture was praised for its capture of seraphic beauty.

• Seraphic countenance: A facial expression or appearance of angelic serenity and bliss.

  • Even in hardship, she maintained a seraphic countenance.

Adjective

1. of or relating to an angel of the first order
   • he imagined a seraphic presence in the room