Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Worthy of worship; holy.
- adjective Held in veneration; revered.
- adjective Roman Catholic Church Used as a title before the name of one who has been beatified.
- adjective Bringing happiness, pleasure, or contentment.
- adjective Used as an intensive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consecrated; holy: as, the blessed sacrament.
- Worthy of adoration: as, the blessed Trinity.
- Enjoying supreme happiness or felicity; favored with blessings; highly favored; happy; fortunate: as, “England's blessed shore,”
- Specifically Enjoying spiritual blessings and the favor of God; enjoying heavenly felicity; beatified.
- Fraught with or imparting blessings; bestowing happiness, health, or prosperity.
- Bringing happiness; pleasurable; joyful: as, a most blessed time; “a blessed sight to see,”
- Endowed with or possessing healing virtues.
- By euphemism: Cursed; damned; confounded: a term of mitigated objurgation, and often merely emphatic without objurgation: as, the blessed thing gave way; our blessed system of caucusing; he lost every blessed cent he had.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.
- adjective Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
- adjective Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.
- adjective Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity.
- adjective (R. C. Ch.) Beatified.
- adjective Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
divine aid, or protection, or otherblessing . - adjective In
Catholicism , a title indicating thebeatification of a person, thus allowing publicveneration of those who have lived insanctity or died asmartyrs . - adjective Held in veneration;
revered . - adjective Worthy of
worship ;holy . - adjective informal An
intensifier ;damned . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by happiness and good fortune
- adjective worthy of worship
- adjective enjoying the bliss of heaven
- adjective highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
- adjective expletives used informally as intensifiers
- adjective Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
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Examples
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His precious remains rest quietly in the fresh made grave; his immortal spirit has winged its flight to the mansions of the blessed, for blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.
A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless
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The highest conception we can form of heaven is the reversal of all the evil of earth, and the completion of its incomplete good: the sinless purity -- the blessed presence of God -- the fulfilment of all desires -- the service which is _blessed_, not toil -- the changelessness which is progress, not stagnation.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Surprise, and caused him to break forth as he did, "I have blessed him, yea and he shall be blessed," would never have permitted or impowered _Isaac_, to have _blessed Esau_, in an _effectual_ manner beyond his Brother: Or if a mere Pronouncing of Words, when uttered as a Blessing from the Heads of Families, was in itself an
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No one can doubt that she is a lamb of the Saviour's fold, and if he is about to gather her into his bosom -- "She paused, overcome by emotion, then added in a tremulous tone," It will be a sad thing to _us_, no doubt, but to her -- dear little one -- a blessed, _blessed_ change. "
Holidays at Roselands Martha Finley 1868
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But though it be easy to defme the term blessed, when applied to the Deity, jet it is not so easy to form clear and just conceptions of the blessed - ness, or happiness of a being, who is all mind, or a pure immaterial spirit.
Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice 1812
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Police say the toddler's stepfather admitted to inserting what he called the blessed needles in a series of bizarre rituals.
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There were some 100 claims of different miracles, but they're presenting this one as the official one to make him what they call blessed and then they'll need another miracle in order to make him a saint.
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So we treat our traditions, so we hail the demand of Ireland for what I call a blessed oblivion of the past.
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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"Oh!" said Jack, "I was only a considering what they calls the blessed aspect of the sky, and it seems to me there is a sort of kind of look about things as says that there won't be no marriage at all to-day."
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At age 36, Leyva found herself pregnant with what she calls her "blessed surprise," daughter Alexandria.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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