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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

The blushing beauty of the Larghetto was haunted by Barenboim’s light keyboard touch and empyrean mood: he could have been summoning ghosts.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 3, 2017

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

For the gatekeepers of heaven were to review him in state, that they might make their decision: Would this man be a credit to the empyrean?

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen


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