blessedness

Variant of blessed

blessed definition

blessed (for 1-2, blest, also bles′id; for 3-5, bles′id, also blest)

adjective

  1. holy; sacred; consecrated
  2. enjoying great happiness; blissful
  3. of or in eternal bliss; a title applied to a person who has been beatified
  4. bringing comfort or joy
  5. confounded; cursed: an intensive

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blessed Idioms

the blessed

(for 1, blest or bles′id; for 2, bles′id, also blest)
  1. people who are blessed
  2. Theol. those dead whose souls are in heaven

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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