blissen en · VERB
Etymology
From bliss + -en (verbal suffix).
Meanings
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(transitive) To make blissful or happy; fill with or impart bliss to
Why the immense self-pleasure that mental culture would afford, and the blissening consciousness of doing good with it to those around him.
1969, Robert Owen, The New Moral World, volume 8, page 375:I very unceremoniously hid her in my heart and took her to my room to blissen my dreams.
1846, The American Whig Review, volume 3, page 377:True goodness infallibly blissens the bosom in which it assumes an influential position.
1840, Henry Wright, Retrospective Sketch:All solemnly and thankfully I feel its blissening power As ringing out victoriously.
1860, Anne Bowman, Esperanza: My Journey Thither and what I Found There, page 314:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| blissening | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| blissens | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| blissened | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| blissened | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Synonyms
gladden someone's heart · jollify · make someone's day · gay · happify · upcheer · warm the cockles of someone's heart · content · warm someone's heart · hearten · delight · light up · bright · enbliss · fetch · please · elate · beatify · rejoice · cherish · cheer · fain · gratify · raise someone's spirits · elate · enrapture · elevate · beatify · gladden · blissen · happy · exhilarate · turn the frown upside down · cheer up · perk up · begladden · laetificate