beatitude

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Supreme blessedness or happiness.
• noun Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
• noun Used as a title and form of address for a patriarch in the Armenian Church or a metropolitan in the Russian Orthodox Church.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Supreme blessedness; felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss; hence, in a less restricted sense, any extreme pleasure or satisfaction.
• noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
• noun 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.
• noun (R. C. Ch.) Beatification.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness.
• noun 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).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed)
• noun a state of supreme happiness