angelage

English

Etymology

angel +‎ -age

Noun

angelage (uncountable)

  1. The existence or state of angels.
    • 1850, Sylvester Judd, Philo: an Evangeliad, page 22:
      Tell me of Angelage, Gabriel. O'er will of mortals we do not preside;
    • 1881, "A Woman", Facts, page 21:
      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 […]
    • 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 […]
    • 1945, Lawrence Emerson Nelson, Our Roving Bible, page 20:
      To him Arthur became the human soul seeking perfection, his castle the symbol of man's slow climb from savagery to angelage.
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