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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

This is the kind of thriller that invites you into a gilded empyrean that compels you and repels you in equal measure.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 6, 2025

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

An attentive husband to Corrine and a good father to their children, he glides through New York’s financial and cultural empyrean in a state of blissful satisfaction.

From Washington Post Aug. 4, 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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