Blessedness
['blesɪdnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bliss, blissfulness, happiness, felicity, beatitude, joy.
Checker: Mandy
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See JOY]
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- So short now seemed the remaining voyage of life,--so near, so vivid, seemed eternal blessedness,--that life's uttermost woes fell from him unharming. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Nor do I see a final state of blessedness. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She had the perfect candour of creation, something translucent and simple, like a radiant, shining flower that moment unfolded in primal blessedness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Who can speak the blessedness of that first day of freedom? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The first plunge would be terrible--but afterward, what blessedness might come! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- How impossible was it to sleep, in the exuberant possession of such blessedness! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Five days of undisturbed tranquillity, of delicious single blessedness, quite restored me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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