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beatitude
[ bee-at-i-tood, -tyood ]
noun
- supreme blessedness; exalted happiness.
- (often initial capital letter) any of the declarations of blessedness pronounced by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
beatitude
1/ bɪˈætɪˌtjuːd /
noun
- supreme blessedness or happiness
- an honorific title of the Eastern Christian Church, applied to those of patriarchal rank
Beatitude
2/ bɪˈætɪˌtjuːd /
noun
- New Testament any of eight distinctive sayings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:3–11) in which he declares that the poor, the meek, those that mourn, the merciful, the peacemakers, the pure of heart, those that thirst for justice, and those that are persecuted will, in various ways, receive the blessings of heaven
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Word History and Origins
Origin of beatitude1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of beatitude1
C15: from Latin beātitūdō , from beātus blessed; see beatific
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Example Sentences
A smile of beatitude spread over his enormous countenance during the process.
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Life has few direr disenchanters than the morning smells of obsolete tobacco, relics though they be of hesternal beatitude.
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Flowers and fruits may be the emblems of future beatitude; and a loaf, of the bread of life or of the holy eucharist.
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Until quite lately his Beatitude maintained a court jester also—one Shlimun (Solomon), who died a few years ago.
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An expression of absolute beatitude spread over the countenance of Mandy McGovern.
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