Definition of "heavenly" []

• Sublime; delightful; enchanting. (adjective)
• Of or relating to the firmament; celestial: the sun, the moon, and other heavenly bodies. (adjective)
• Of or relating to the abode of God; divine. (adjective)

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• ""Oh, come, Billie, that's too much!" laughed Teddy, swinging her on to the floor and giving her what she called a heavenly dance."
• "He seems to me to ascribe the exultation, the sense of power, the feeling of heightened vitality which accompany sexual love to that other love which he calls the heavenly love and which I should prefer to call loving-kindness; and by doing so infects it with the ineradicable vice of earthly love."
• "Henceforth, she lived in a state of bitter but powerless irritation, face to face with her yielding niece who displayed adorable acts of tenderness to recompense her for what she termed her heavenly goodness."