"seraphic" meaning in English

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          "text": "the Seraphic Doctor, title given to the Italian medieval theologian Bonaventure"
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          "text": "Ye Hoſts that to his Courts belong, / Cherubic Quires, Seraphic Flames, / Awake the everlaſting Song."
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          "sense": "relating to the seraphim",
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          "text": "A thousand times he was like to have denyed all, but durst not defame the most sacred Idol of his Soul: Sometimes he thought his Uncle would be generous, and think it fit to give him Silvia; but that Thought was too Seraphick to remain a Moment in his Heart.",
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          "text": "Too white, for the flower of life is red;\nHer flesh was the soft, seraphic screen\nOf a soul that is meant (her parents said)\nTo just see earth, and hardly be seen,\nAnd blossom in Heaven instead.",
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          "text": "So instead of Tesfaye’s seraphic warble, Hanley offers earthier, gruffer tones: you get the impression, considering the casual sexism and more conventional machismo on display here, that the rarefied, stylised and feminised would be unacceptable in his world.",
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      "sense": "relating to the seraphim",
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