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Blessed

[bles-id; especially for 3, 7 blest]

adjective

consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.

worthy of adoration, reverence, or worship: the Blessed Trinity.

divinely or supremely favored; fortunate: to be blessed with a strong, healthy body; blessed with an ability to find friends.

blissfully happy or contented.

Roman Catholic Church. beatified.

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bringing happiness and thankfulness: the blessed assurance of a steady income.

Informal. damned: I'm blessed if I know.

Informal. (used as an intensifier): every blessed cent.

COLLAPSE

Also, blest.

Origin:
1125–75; Middle English; see bless, -ed²

Related forms

bless·ed·ly, adverb

bless·ed·ness, noun

su·per·blessed, adjective

su·per·bless·ed·ness, noun

well-blessed, adjective

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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Example Sentences

Gold and silver alone have not usually blessed the land of their origin.

Hindsight has not blessed me with many new insights on that front.

Switzerland is blessed with a commodity prized more than iron ore or soyabeans in uncertain times: safety.

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Gold and silver alone have not usually blessed the land of their origin.

Hindsight has not blessed me with many new insights on that front.

Switzerland is blessed with a commodity prized more than iron ore or soyabeans in uncertain times: safety.

No other downtown on the continent is blessed with such a stunning tropical vista.

Orissa also blessed with substantial solar energy resource.

Here is the sort of thing her blessed shade inspires.

You've been blessed with a swarm, but how unfortunate that it's in a difficult spot.

For such a fearsome disease that has no other treatment, that would be some blessed work.

Professors are both blessed and cursed with the lack of a standard uniform.

The whole ghastly episode was proof that central banks are blessed with great power and that they should use it if need be.

Ibex's first pieces featuring a blessed union between cozy down and miraculous wool.

The music industry is no longer blessed with a multi-billion dollar bank account.

Our mother was blessed with shimmering, golden, red locks.

He knows that this will seem absurd from the outside, but he is blessed not to care.

He blessed them all and drove off in a cloud of dust.

In the past, when food was scarce, those who harboured such microbes would have been blessed.

Vancouver is a coastal city blessed by dramatic geography.

But experts blamed it on climate change, warning of more future droughts in areas traditionally blessed with water.

It's a needed reminder that, in spite of our problems, we're blessed to live in such a wonderful country.

Enough to salvage the lives of a few well-connected students who were blessed with spunk and good looks.

Chinese form of capitalism triumphs because they seem to embrace rational thinking, and they are blessed by the lady fortuna.

The reservoir is blessed with some one hundred major canyons, as well as countless smaller, unnamed chasms.

Kids who have been blessed with some good luck will be better liked by other little kids.

We are at once the blessed and cursed inheritors of a fierce and bountiful land.

If this is possible then some people are still blessed in this world.

You'll return home feeling connected, grateful, and blessed.

When you've been blessed with bad enough health, you don't reproduce.

Joe loved life and left behind so many whose lives were blessed with his warmth and friendhip.

We were all blessed to have you as our nephew and cousin.

Be blessed by helping another and pray for the world and the people in.

His intelligence, charm, and sincerity were a gift to all who were blessed to know him.

Asia's boomers are blessed with increasing spending power.

We are indeed blessed to have evolved such intelligence.

Nor did they seem to be blessed with qualities of seduction.

We were blessed with her presence and will forever.

India is now blessed with a young and growing workforce.

Previous studies have also suggested that some dinosaurs were blessed with similar natural radiators on their bodies.

Well, those who do learn from history are often equally blessed to repeat.

She was blessed with a rich life, full of dance, world travel and philanthropic work with.

If you are blessed with children, they need to come first.

The chances are slim of finding one of the blessed few who can show real, sustained skill in stock-picking.

We are blessed to have been left with many fabulous memories of such a loving and selfless person.

Ginsberg is literally wired for sound, blessed with exceptional hearing.

Mohammed blessed the cowardly murder of an old man and a young mother who criticized him in his day.

His answer, which has not changed since, was blessed with the certainty of youth.

I've been blessed with some great teachers beginning with my parents.

Since all property was state owned, this precluded any personal initiative unless it was first blessed by the bureaucracy.

My family did not have wealth in the traditional sense, but they were blessed with the kind of wealth that really counts.

The generals' economic mismanagement has helped reduce a country blessed with rich resources to crippling poverty.

Also to the people who helped and were the brain child of initiatives towards the conservation project may you stay blessed.

Blessed with scale and market knowledge, it is better placed than potential rivals to commit itself to financing innovations.

Iraqis are fond of saying they are not blessed by them.

Peru is blessed with incredible biodiversity-a bounty that is clearly reflected on its plates.

We have been blessed with beautiful weather and only occasional rain showers that usually occur during the night.

Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit all the monopoly money.

Laughter is a blessed event in this made-for-cable adaptation of the popular off-Broadway revue.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), blessed or blest, bless·ing.

to consecrate or sanctify by a religious rite; make or pronounce holy.

to request of God the bestowal of divine favor on: Bless this house.

to bestow good of any kind upon: a nation blessed with peace.

to extol as holy; glorify: Bless the name of the Lord.

to protect or guard from evil (usually used interjectionally): Bless you! Bless your innocent little heart!

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to condemn or curse: I'll be blessed if I can see your reasoning. Bless me if it isn't my old friend!

to make the sign of the cross over or upon: The Pope blessed the multitude.

COLLAPSE

Origin:
before 950; Middle English blessen, Old English blētsian, blēdsian to consecrate, orig. with blood, earlier *blōdisōian (blōd blood + -isō- derivational suffix + -ian v. suffix)

Related forms

bless·er, noun

bless·ing·ly, adverb

out·bless, verb (used with object), -blessed or -blest, -bles·sing.

pre·bless, verb (used with object)

Synonyms
1. exalt, hallow, glorify, magnify, beatify.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

blessed (ˈblɛsɪd, blɛst)

—*adj*
1.	made holy by religious ceremony; consecrated
2.	worthy of deep reverence or respect
3.	RC Church (of a person) beatified by the pope
4.	characterized by happiness or good fortune: a blessed time
5.	bringing great happiness or good fortune
6.	a euphemistic word for damned : I'm blessed if I know

—n
7.	Christianity the blessed the dead who are already enjoying heavenly bliss

'blessedly

—*adv*

'blessedness

—n

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

bless

O.E. bletsian, bledsian, Northumbrian bloedsian "to consecrate, make holy, give thanks," from P.Gmc. *blothisojan "mark with blood," from *blotham "blood" (see blood). Originally a blood sprinkling on pagan altars. This word was chosen in O.E. bibles to translate L. benedicere

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and Gk. eulogein, both of which have a ground sense of "to speak well of, to praise," but were used in Scripture to translate Heb. brk "to bend (the knee), worship, praise, invoke blessings." Meaning shifted in late O.E. toward "pronounce or make happy," by resemblance to unrelated bliss. No cognates in other languages.

blessed

late 12c., "supremely happy," also "consecrated" (c.1200), pp. adj. from bless (q.v.). Reversed or ironic sense of "cursed, damned" is recorded from 1806.

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