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But trepidation of the spheares,
Though greater farre, is innocent.
—Donne, 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'
The touching of the Ptolemaic spheres one upon the other produced the music of the spheres.
I hate this word. It is simply overused, particularly by sci-fi, fantasy, and gothic fiction authors. The worst abuse I have seen is in Bloodline by Kate Cary (which is, despite good reviews on Amazon, an absolute literary abomination!)