beatitude

(bē at′ə to̵̅o̅d′, -tyo̵̅o̅d′)

noun

perfect blessedness or happiness

Origin: LME < MFr béatitude or ML(Ec) beatitudo, happiness, beatitude < LL(Ec) < L, happiness < beatus: see bonus

See beatitude in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Supreme blessedness or happiness.
Beatitude Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
Beatitude Used as a title and form of address for a patriarch in the Armenian Church or a metropolitan in the Russian Orthodox Church: Your Beatitude.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Latin beātitūdō

Origin: , from beātus, happy; see beatific

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