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Definition of Celestial city
1. Noun. Phrases used to refer to Heaven. "The Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Celestial City
Literary usage of Celestial city
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1905)
"Cuzco, The celestial city. BY STANSBURY HAGAR. When the Spanish conquerors first
came in sight of the capital city of the Incas they must have noticed that ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"CHRISTIANA AND HER COMPANIONS ENTER THE celestial city From the (Pilgrim's
Progress > Now while they lay here and waited for the good hour, ..."
3. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Whiting Halsey (1909)
"A DREAM OF THE celestial city Now I saw in my dream that by this time the pilgrims
were got over the Enchanted Ground, and entering ..."
4. The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious, and by Edward Randolph Carter (1894)
"ER Carter to lead his people on- ward and upward toward the celestial city.
But stop! Satan was not asleep. Some of the members began to find fault, ..."
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