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Tekoälykääntäjä

Synonyymit

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Erisnimet

  1. (religion) The abode of God or the gods, when considered as a specific location; the abode of the blessed departed who reside in the presence of God or the gods
  2. (religion) Providence, the will of God or the gods, when considered as a personal entity or specific aspect of the divine; Fate
  3. (uncommon) Other extended senses of heaven as a specific place similar to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed departed
  4. (obsolete) The sky, particularly its distant aspect as the abode of the sun, moon, and stars
  5. (uncommon) derived from Evan
  6. (rare) of modern usage from the noun heaven.

Esimerkit

  • Conſider firſt that the excommunicated Prelate ſaith... Kings are not immediatly from God, as by any ſpeciall Ordinance ſent from Heaven by the miniſtery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ſome few ſuch, as Moſes, Saul, David, etc.
  • Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
  • To grasp the Chinese's notion of Heaven, we must look at the contexts in which tian is used... In the Book of Odes (Shi jing 詩經), which includes poems dated between the eleventh and seventh centuries BCE, tian is a place where the Heavenly Thearch resides.
  • ...The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven.
  • Heaven commands thine arm To lift the sure-destroying sword!
  • ...executing the just judgment of offended Heaven upon cattle-houghers, traitors, and assassins.
  • Cosmologists regarded Heaven as a force—composed of qi 氣, which was divided into yin 陰 and yang 陽 aspects—that kept the cosmos moving.
  • The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
  • Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues.
  • The Heauens...are carried in 24 houres from East to West.

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