Heavens vs Frigg - What's the difference?
heavens | frigg |
(often with 'the') : the distant sky of the sun, moon, and stars.
* (William Shakespeare), (The Comedie of Errors) , I i 66:
* 1625 , Nathanæl Carpenter, Geography delineated forth in two bookes , I iv 77:
:: The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac.
* 1981 , E.R. Harrison, Cosmology , XII 250:
(religion) : the abode of God or the gods; the abode of the blessed departed.
* 1832 , Charles Coleman, The Mythology of the Hindus , XIII 220:
* 1906 July 30, Washington Post , 12 4:
(rare) : the near sky of the weather, etc.
(rare) the will of God or the gods, Providence.
* 1611 , (King James Bible), iv 26:
An expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.
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*:“Heavens! ” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
(Germanic mythology, Norse mythology) The wife of Odin, and the Norse/Germanic goddess of married love, the heavens, home and hearth, after whom Friday is named (due to her being identified with Venus).
As proper nouns the difference between heavens and frigg
is that heavens is while frigg is (germanic mythology|norse mythology) the wife of odin, and the norse/germanic goddess of married love, the heavens, home and hearth, after whom friday is named (due to her being identified with venus).heavens
English
Noun
(head)- What obscured light the heauens did grant.
- The Heauens ...are carried in 24 houres from East to West.
- 1930 March, Nature , 179 2:
- In an infinite...universe the stars would collectively outshine the Sun and flood the heavens with light far more intense than is observed.
- Like the Buddhas, they
[ the Jains ] believe that there is a plurality of heavens and hells.
- Christ's coming from the heavens has entered into the life of humanity as the Founder of the world to come.
- After that thou shalt haue]] [[known, knowen that the heauens doe rule.