blissful

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So, as in a prison-house, did her soul now recall the blissful hours by Wilming Weir.

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  1. Full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss; full of felicity: as, “blissful joy,” Spenser, F. Q.; “blissful solitude,” Milton, P. L., iii. 69. The blissful shore of rural ease. Thomson, Liberty, v. Ever as those blissful creatures do I fare. Wordsworth.
  2. [Cf. blessful.] Blessed; holy.

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  • The mire and weed was like a blissful bed. —  The Long Roll
  • Is the idea of a state of entire happiness at all compatible with the regret that must be felt for a blissful past; the consciousness of a flying present; and the fear of an uncertain future? —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • Now they saw a canoe sink from under the person it was appointed to judge--a father, perhaps, with his children in view; a husband, or wife, or friend, with the object dearest to their hearts, to listen to the bubling cry of their agony, as they sank to their chins in the water, there to remain for ever, beholding and regretting the rewards enjoyed by the good, and doomed to struggle, till the stars shall cease to shine, in unavailing endeavours to reach the blissful island. —  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • Be good, and thy spirit in a few more moons shall rejoin that of thy beloved rock-rose in the blissful island. —  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • They have been admonished so often in print and private that their ignorance is not blissful, indeed it is baneful, that these ambitious ladies and gentlemen rush off to the booksellers, to libraries, and literally gorge themselves with the "ologies" and "isms" of the day. —  Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
 

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  1. from Middle English blisful; from bliss + -ful.
 

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