blessedness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈblɛsɪdnɪs/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English blessednesse, equivalent to blessed + -ness.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The condition or state of being blessed; holy.
It matters little to tell you of my blessedness; but my very heart was filled with the light of those radiant eyes, which were to me what the sun is to the world.
1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 19:But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| blessednesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (11)
pl błogostan (condition or state of being blessed) · nl zaligheid (condition or state of being blessed) · fr béatitude (condition or state of being blessed) · pl błogość (condition or state of being blessed) · kk жарылқанғандық (condition or state of being blessed) · grc μακαριότης (condition or state of being blessed) · nl gezegendheid (condition or state of being blessed) · la beatitūdō (condition or state of being blessed) · nl gelukzaligheid (condition or state of being blessed) · de Seligkeit (condition or state of being blessed) · de Glückseligkeit (condition or state of being blessed)