bless·ed

(blĕs′ĭd) also blest (blĕst)

adj.

a. Worthy of worship; holy.

b. Held in veneration; revered.

2. Blessed Roman Catholic Church Used as a title before the name of one who has been beatified.

3. Bringing happiness, pleasure, or contentment.

4. blessed Used as an intensive: I don't have a blessed dime.

bless′ed·ly adv.

bless′ed·ness n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

blessedness - a state of supreme happiness

beatification, beatitude

happiness, felicity - state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy

nirvana, enlightenment - (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

blessedness

noun

1. The quality of being holy or sacred:

holiness, sacredness, sacrosanctity, sanctity.

2. A condition of supreme well-being and good spirits:

beatitude, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, felicity, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness.

Translations

مُبارَكه، تَقْديس

blaženostpožehnanost

lyksalighedvelsignethed

Seligkeit

félicité

blessun, hamingja, sæla

lykksalighet velsignethet

kutsallık

天恩

blessedness

[ˈblesɪdnɪs] N (Rel) → bienaventuranza f, santidad f; (= happiness) → dicha f, felicidad f

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bless

(bles) – past tense blessed: past participles blessed ~blest

– to ask God to show favour to. Bless this ship.

blessed (ˈblesid) adjective

holy. the Blessed Virgin.

ˈblessedly (-sid-) adverb

ˈblessedness (-sid-) noun

ˈblessing noun

1. a wish or prayer for happiness or success. The priest gave them his blessing.

2. any cause of happiness. Her son was a great blessing to her.

3. a prayer of thanks to God before and/or after a meal.

a blessing in disguise

something that has proved to be fortunate after seeming unfortunate.

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This was what the patient, faithful lovers had privately planned and quietly waited for years ago; and in due time they were united, to the astonishment of the little world they lived in, that had long since declared them both born to single blessedness; affirming it impossible that the pale, retiring bookworm should ever summon courage to seek a wife, or be able to obtain one if he did, and equally impossible that the plain-looking, plain-dealing, unattractive, unconciliating Miss Millward should ever find a husband.

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And, with something of a pang, resolutely stifled, I realised for a moment the true blessedness of the single state I was so soon to leave behind.

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Who can speak the blessedness of that first day of freedom?

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(For ABILITY-to-stand is a merit in courtiers; and all courtiers believe that unto blessedness after death pertaineth--PERMISSION-to-sit!)

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Ah, mon cher monsieur , they talk of the blessedness of labour, and it is a meaningless phrase, but to me it has the most intense significance.

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There in the realms of eternal peace and blessedness?" she thought.

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You are so dim, so vague, you are but a mist, a cloud, but you are HERE, and that is blessedness sufficient; and I have your hand; don't take it away -- it is for only a little while, I shall not require it long......

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She might awaken, it was true; and on the other hand, and with equal chance, he might be the wrong man for her, and his declaration of love might only more firmly set her in her views on single blessedness.

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How often now, oppressed by the necessity of assisting at three dining-room meals daily, two of which are conducted by the functionaries held indispensable to a proper maintenance of the family dignity, and all of which are pervaded by joints of meat, how often do I think of my salad days, forty in number, and of the blessedness of being alone as I was then alone!

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Cobb was mother only to a little headstone in the churchyard, where reposed "Sarah Ann, beloved daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah Cobb, aged seventeen months;" but the name of mother was better than nothing, and served at any rate as a reminder of her woman's crown of blessedness.

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"Dear friends," she said at last, "brothers and sisters, whom I love as those for whom my Lord has died, believe me, I know what this great blessedness is; and because I know it, I want you to have it too.

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It was very faint and very far off, but it /was/ a sound, a faint, murmuring sound, for the others heard it too, and no words can describe the blessedness of it after all those hours of utter, awful stillness.

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