blessedness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English blessednesse, equivalent to blessed + -ness.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
blessedness (countable and uncountable, plural blessednesses)
- The condition or state of being blessed; holy.
- 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]:
- But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.
- 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 19:
- 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.
Translations[edit]
condition or state of being blessed
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