blessing; bliss, absolute happiness
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Beatitude Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
(n.)
Beatification.
Beatification.
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutAny 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.
beatitude
\be*at"i*tude\ (&?;), n. [l. beatitudo: cf. f. béatitude. see beatify.]
1. felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
2. any one of the nine declarations (called the beatitudes), made in the sermon on the mount ( v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.
3. (r. c. ch.) beatification.
Any state of great happiness.
Noun
1. one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); "her favorite Beatitude is `Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'"
(hypernym) saying, expression, locution
(part-holonym) Sermon on the Mount
Noun
1. a state of supreme happiness
(synonym) blessedness, beatification
(hypernym) happiness, felicity
(hyponym) Nirvana, enlightenment
Beatitude Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In Christianity, the Beatitudes (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: Beatitudines) are a set of teachings by Jesus that appear in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The term Beatitude comes from the Latin adjective beatus which means happy, fortunate, or blissful.
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