All 3 Uses of
ethereal
in
City of Bones
- They wore flowing garments in deep colors of gold, purple, and green, and their high voices were sharp and ethereal.†
Chpt 13 *
- The demon possessed her, then hid the majority of its ethereal form just outside the Portal, where the Sensor wouldn't register it.†
Chpt 19
- You have to kill them in their physical and ethereal forms before they'll die.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(ethereal) characterized by an air-like insubstantiality
or:
so delicate and insubstantial that it barely seems of this world -- often beautiful -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, but seen in older writings, ethereal can mean "heavenly or celestial" -- as when Milton writes of an "ethereal messenger" in Paradise Lost. Similarly, it can mean "unworldly" or "spiritual".
In chemistry, there is a specialized meaning: "of or related to the chemical, ether"