beatific

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His eyes dilated; the expression of his livid face grew first surprised, then joyous--beatific.

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  1. adjective Showing or producing exalted joy or blessedness: a beatific smile.

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  • She paused for a beatific smile and a dreamy sigh. —  Ledbetter, Suzann - North of Clever
  • Is it possible that any one should escape from a state of coldness, deadness, worldliness, and unwilling performance of his religious duties, and positively come to lose all taste for bodily and mere intellectual pleasures through the absorbing of his whole being into the love of Jesus and of Mary, and through a burning thirst for the beatific vision of the Eternal Trinity? —  The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
  • It seems same a aggregation of nonmeaningful impact to repeat the assemblage into decade beatific or intense things when I've already spent the whole assemblage informing you how there were belike decade beatific things and everything added intense things. —  www.awesomeblogs.com
  • Elisabeth Dahl makes the Wife a beatific, moon-faced new mother, enraptured and absorbed by her son. —  Evening Standard - Home
  • This album veers from rapturous, beatific orchestral interludes (closed eyes, soft focus) to alarmingly aggressive uptempo Bollywood funk (for, you know). —  17 dots
 

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  1. Latin beātificus : beātus, happy (from past participle of beāre, to bless; see deu-2 in Indo-European roots) + -ficus, -fic.

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  1. from Late Latin beatificus, from beatus, happy, + facere, make; cf. beatify.
 

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