Beatitude Definition

bē-ătĭ-to͝od, -tyo͝od
beatitudes
noun
beatitudes
Supreme blessedness or happiness.
American Heritage
Perfect blessedness or happiness.
Webster's New World
Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
American Heritage
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.
American Heritage

(uncountable) Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
idiom
the Beatitudes
  • the pronouncements in the Sermon on the Mount, which begin “Blessed are the poor in spirit”: Matt. 5:3-12
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Beatitude

Noun

Singular:
beatitude
Plural:
beatitudes

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Beatitude

  • the Beatitudes

Origin of Beatitude

  • From French béatitude, from Latin beātitūdō (“happiness, blessedness”), from beātus (“happy, blessed”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin beātitūdō from beātus happy beatific

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Beatitude Sentence Examples

  • Christ's first beatitude is to the poor in spirit.

  • All of our actions are to be directed toward such beatitude.

  • Some things in the history of his last days, and in the indications of beatitude recorded, strongly recall the parallel history of the saints of the Roman calendar.

  • His order and enumeration of the principles of being, his doctrine of the double aspect of intellect, and of the perfect beatitude which consists in the aggregation of noble minds when they are delivered from the separating barriers of individual bodies, present at least in germ the characteristic theory of Averroes.

  • In order to obtain beatitude for her adoptive father, she resolved to become a river whose waters should purify from all sin.

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