Heavenname

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  lifestylereligionThe 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

  • 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.
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  lifestylereligionProvidence, the will of God or the gods, when considered as a personal entity or specific aspect of the divine; Fate

  • ...but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs,
  • Heaven commands thine arm To lift the sure-destroying sword!
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  Other extended senses of heaven as a specific place similar to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed departed

  • The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
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  obsoleteThe sky, particularly its distant aspect as the abode of the sun, moon, and stars

  • 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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  human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe supreme God or Nature which controls the universe.

  • What Heaven has conferred is called the Nature...
  • ...‘Heaven’ as we use it throughout the book is only a convenient but inaccurate translation of the Chinese character tian. Heaven in Chinese religions as well as in the Confucian tradition has multidimensional implications... In its metaphysical and physical connotation, Heaven... refers to... Nature. Applied in the spiritual realm, it signifies an anthropomorphic Lord or a Supreme Being who presides in Heaven, and rules over or governs directly the spiritual and material worlds.
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  A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Evan

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  rareA female given name from English of modern usage from the noun heaven.

heavennoun/ˈhɛvən/

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  datedThe sky, specifically:

  • All that is vnder the heauen.
  • The ordinaunce...made such a great noyse and thunderyng that it seemed the heaven would have fallen.
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  obsoleteThe sky, specifically:

  • Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues.
  • The qualitie of mercie is not ſtraind, it droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen vpon the place beneath
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  obsoleteThe sky, specifically:

  • Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse.
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  ChristianitylifestylereligionThe abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:

  • And there was a battel in heauen. Michael & his Angels foght againſt the dragon, and the dragon foght & his Angels. But they preuailed not, nether was their place founde anie more in heauen.
  • 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.
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  lifestylereligionThe abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:

  • With Ioue in heauen, or some where else.
  • As he [Muhammad] was returning, in the fourth Heaven, Moses advised him to goe back to God.
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  lifestylereligionThe abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:

  • […]he cannot thriue, Vnlesse her prayers, whom heauen delights to heare And loues to grant, repreeue him from the wrath Of greatest Iustice.
  • After that thou shalt haue knowen that the heauens doe rule.
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  lifestylereligionThe afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically

  • I wonder what your idea of heaven would be—A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably be an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze... To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors...
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  ChristianityIslamlifestyleThe afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:

  • Teache the people to gett heuen with fastynge.
  • ...what I speake My body shall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine soule answer it in heauen.

heavenverb/ˈhɛvən/

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  obsoleteTo transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.

  • He heauens himselfe on earth, & for a litle pelfe cousens himselfe of blisse.
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  obsoleteTo beatify, enchant, or please greatly.

  • They [Byron's Tales]...enraptured the public and heavened Murray.
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  obsoleteTo beautify, to make into a paradise.

heavenadj/ˈhɛvən/

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  obsoleteBeing heavenly.