heavenes

Noun

heaven (countable and uncountable, plural heavens)

1. (dated, plural-normally, poetic) The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
   • All that is vnder the heauen.1535, Coverdale Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1
2. (obsolete) The near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate.
   • Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues.1581, Stefano Guazzo, translated by George Pettie, Ciuile Conuersation, I 26
3. (obsolete) A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.
   • Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse.1600, Thomas Nashe, Summers Last Will
4. (capitalized, usually) The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
   • 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.1560, Geneva Bible, Revelation 12:7–8

   Synonyms:

   pearly gates

5. (broadly, capitalized, often) The abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus.
   • With Ioue in heauen, or some where else.c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
6. (broadly, capitalized, usually) Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate.
   • […]he cannot thriue,
     Vnlesse her prayers, whom heauen delights to heare
     And loues to grant, repreeue him from the wrath
     Of greatest Iustice.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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