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empyrean

[em-puh-ree-uhn, -pahy-, em-pir-ee-uhn, -pahy-ree-] / ˌɛm pəˈri ən, -paɪ-, ɛmˈpɪr i ən, -ˈpaɪ ri- /
ADJECTIVE
heavenly
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The Virgin is opening her arms, about to begin her rise through this nebulous, spiraling vortex toward heaven’s golden, empyrean light.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

He is especially good at describing Catherine’s ascent into the social media empyrean.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2023

Still, there was no prohibition, earthly or empyrean, on laymen entering the ranks, and, here and there, they did.

From The New Yorker Oct. 28, 2018

Each May when the jacarandas bloom and transform Los Angeles, where I now live, into a purple empyrean heaven, I always think of my uncle.

From Washington Post Jun. 1, 2016

They say he intends to remake the Austrian town of Linz into an empyrean city, the cultural capital of the world.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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