beatific

be·a·tif·ic (b

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adj.

Showing or producing exalted joy or blessedness: a beatific smile.

[Latin betificus : betus, happy (from past participle of bere, to bless; see deu-² in Indo-European roots) + -ficus, -fic.]

bea·tifi·cal·ly adv.

beatific [ˌbiːəˈtɪfɪk]

adj

1. displaying great happiness, calmness, etc a beatific smile

2. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) of, conferring, or relating to a state of celestial happiness

[from Late Latin beātificus, from Latin beātus, from beāre to bless + facere to make]

beatifically adv

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Adj.	1.	beatific - experiencing or bestowing celestial joy; "beatific peace" joyful - full of or producing joy; "make a joyful noise"; "a joyful occasion"
	2.	beatific - marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother" angelic, sainted, saintlike, saintly, angelical good - morally admirable

beatific

adjective (Literary) blissful, happy, heavenly, glorious, enchanted, ecstatic, sublime, serene, joyous, exalted, joyful, elated, euphoric, rapturous, rapt, enraptured, blissed out He smiled an almost beatific smile.

Translations

beatific [ˌbiːəˈtɪfɪk] ADJ → beatífico
a beatific smile → una sonrisa beatífica

beatific [ˌbiːəˈtɪfɪk] adj (literary) (= blissful) [smile] → béat(e)

beatific

adj → glückselig; vision → himmlisch

beatific [ˌbiːəˈtɪfɪk] adj (liter) (smile, expression) → beato/a

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He seemed, at times, so lost in the beatific vision, that he forgot my stumblings in the philological darkness, till I appealed to him for help.

My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context

Mademoiselle Bourienne stood near them pressing her hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to cry or to laugh.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

It seemed to him now that there was nothing in life to be compared with that beatific state, and that bachelors were mere wild asses of the desert.

Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context

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