beatitude

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Ghost; by joy we become like the Godhead in beatitude, and thus the participation of the divine beatitude is completed in us. "

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  1. noun Supreme blessedness or happiness.
  2. noun Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
  3. noun Used as a title and form of address for a patriarch in the Armenian Church or a metropolitan in the Russian Orthodox Church: Your Beatitude.

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  • Henceforth his soul is vexed by [86] no doubts respecting spiritual truth; he is exposed to no errors of faith; he is elevated to a state of beatitude which is even independent of the performance of good works; and being made a partaker of the unity of the divine nature he knows no further distinction of sects, but regards the true believers of all creeds as brethren. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of Schamyl, by J. Milton Mackie.
  • It was only eleven o'clock; and he never arrived at his desired state of beatitude--a state wherein he sang ancient maudlin vaudeville songs and pelted his screaming parrot with banana peels--until the middle of the afternoon. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
  • The "Solitary" sees all heaven opened; the revealed abode of spirits in beatitude--a refuge and a redemption from "this low world of care;" while Myrrha drinks in "enough of heaven," a medicament of "Sorrow and of Love," for the invigoration of "the common, heavy, human hours" of mortal existence. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
  • Henceforth his soul is vexed by no doubts respecting spiritual truth; he is exposed to no errors of faith; he is elevated to a state of beatitude which is even independent of the performance of good works; and being made a partaker of the unity of the divine nature he knows no further distinction of sects, but regards the true believers of all creeds as brethren. —  Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
  • People often spoke of dead people with a sort of faint look of uncertain beatitude--the same which many think appropriate to the singing of hymns. —  Adam Johnstone's Son
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin beātitūdō, from beātus, happy; see beatific.

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  1. from French béatitude, from Latin beatitudo, from beatus, happy, blessed: see beatify.
 

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