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BEATITUDE

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be⋅at⋅i⋅tude

  [bee-at-i-tood, -tyood]
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–noun
1. supreme blessedness; exalted happiness.
2. (often initial capital letter) any of the declarations of blessedness pronounced by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L beātitūdō perfect happiness, equiv. to beāti- (see beatific ) + -tūdō -tude
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be·at·i·tude   (bē-āt'ĭ-tōōd', -tyōōd')   
n.  

  1. Supreme blessedness or happiness.

  2. Beatitude Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.

  3. 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.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin beātitūdō, from beātus, happy; see beatific.]
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beatitude 
1491, "supreme happiness," from L. beatitudo "state of blessedness," from beatus "happy, blessed," pp. of beare "make happy." As "a declaration of blessedness" (especially in ref. to the Sermon on the Mount) it is attested from 1526.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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