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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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Entangled is best known for publishing “Fourth Wing,” the first installment in the popular Empyrean book series by Rebecca Yarros.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

Bestselling romantasy author Rebecca Yarros will discuss the latest installment in her Empyrean series, “Onyx Storm.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025

In anticipation of Onyx Storm's release, the first two Empyrean books, Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, went back to the top two slots in the New York Times fiction bestsellers list.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2025

It’s an area where it’s easy to fail, but if you can pull it off, then you’re really in a high place in the Empyrean, if you know what I mean.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2016

These nine Heavens, as we said before, are only myths to which from the Empyrean come forth the Elect in condescension to Dante's sense-bound faculties, in order to symbolize certain truths.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)




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