Beatitude

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Supreme blessedness or happiness.
  • n. Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
  • n. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness.
  • n. Any one of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth"(Matthew 5:5).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
  • n. Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.
  • n. Beatification.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Supreme blessedness; felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss; hence, in a less restricted sense, any extreme pleasure or satisfaction.
  • n. One of the eight ascriptions of blessedness to those who possess particular virtues, pronounced by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount, Mat. v. 3-11: so named from the word “blessed” (in the Latin, beati), with which each declaration or ascription begins.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed)
  • n. a state of supreme happiness
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    blessedness    bhumi    grader    mention    bliss