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cherubs

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The correct spelling is cherubs. A winged creature attending God, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim…

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noun

  1. 1.A winged creature attending God, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
  2. 2.An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child or a child's head with wings but no body.
  3. 3.A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.

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