See ethereal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Since to part, / Go heavenly Gueſt, Ethereal Meſſenger, / Sent from whoſe ſovran goodneſs I adore.",
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"text": "The fanciful fables of fairy land are but allegories of the young poet's mind when the sweet spell is upon him. Some slight thing calls up the visionary world, and all the outward and actual is for the time forgotten. It is a fever ethereal and lovely; but, like all other fevers, leaving behind weakness and exhaustion.",
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"text": "Our visitors, upon the whole, were not much to boast of; and yet, sitting in a corner and very much ashamed of myself and my absurd appearance, I have again and again tasted the finest, the rarest, and the most ethereal pleasures in a glance of an eye that I should never see again—and never wanted to.",
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"text": "Sure he preſum'd of praiſe, vvho came to ſtock / Th' etherial paſtures vvith ſo fair a flock; / Burniſh'd, and bat'ning on their food, to ſhovv / The diligence of carefull herds belovv.",
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"text": "Vaſt chain of being ! which from God began, / Ethereal Eſſence, Spirit, Subſtance, Man, / Beaſt, Bird, Fiſh, Inſect ! [...]",
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"text": "Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius developes itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!",
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"ref": "1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXI. Pierre Immaturely Attempts a Mature Book. Tidings from the Meadows. Plinlimmon.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "He did not see[…]that already, in the incipiency of his work, the heavy unmalleable element of mere book-knowledge would not congenially weld with the wide fluidness and ethereal airiness of spontaneous creative thought.",
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"ref": "1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XXII. Of Rama.”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part I (Jerusalem), page 108, lines 17–19:",
"text": "The innocent if lawless elf, / Ethereal in virginity, / Retains the consciousness of self.",
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"ref": "1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXI. Pierre Immaturely Attempts a Mature Book. Tidings from the Meadows. Plinlimmon.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XXII. Of Rama.”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part I (Jerusalem), page 108, lines 17–19:",
"text": "The innocent if lawless elf, / Ethereal in virginity, / Retains the consciousness of self.",
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"ref": "1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "nadpozemský"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "taivaallinen"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "éthéré"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "ätherisch"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "αιθέριος"
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "αέρινος"
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"code": "grc",
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"roman": "aithérios",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
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},
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "שְׁמֵימִי"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "etereo"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "aetherius"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "eterisk"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "etéreo"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
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},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere",
"word": "etéreo"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy",
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"sense": "consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy",
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"sense": "consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy",
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"sense": "consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "ro",
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