Beatification

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  • n. The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the Roman Catholic Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, — usually a stage in the process of canonization.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of “the blessed,” or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of beatifying or of rendering or pronouncing happy; the state of being blessed; blessedness.
  • n. In the Roman Catholic Church, the act by which a deceased person is declared to be beatified, or one of the blessed, and therefore a proper subject of a certain degree or kind of public religious honor.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization
  • n. the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy
  • n. a state of supreme happiness
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sanctification    action   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    felicitation    macarization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    canonisation    hagiology    stanchness    face-about    conxict   
     
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