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Definition of Blessedness
1. Noun. A state of supreme happiness.
Generic synonyms: Felicity, Happiness
Specialized synonyms: Enlightenment, Nirvana
Derivative terms: Beatify, Beatify, Blessed
Definition of Blessedness
1. n. The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.
Definition of Blessedness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being blessed, holy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blessedness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Blessedness
Literary usage of Blessedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The term " blessedness " is the usual rendering in the English Bible for the idea
... The Old Testament passage bases " blessedness " on forgiveness of sin, ..."
2. A System of Christian Doctrine by Isaak August Dorner (1882)
"blessedness can only exist where holiness exists. As there is no condemned
penitence,1 so there is no unholy blessedness. § 155.—The Consummation of the ..."
3. Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation by Charles Gore (1890)
"Perfection is consummated by blessedness. The conception of bliss as transcending
... blessedness thus means that state wherein, by a society of renewed ..."
4. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus De Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monroe Elwes (1891)
"blessedness is not the reward of virtue, liut virtue itself ; neither do we
rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, ..."
5. Funeral Sermons and Outline Addresses: An Aid for Pastors by William Ezra Ketcham (1899)
"Consider the nature of this blessedness. I. The vision of the face of God. 1.
The object of this vision: " Thy face." (a) A sensible glory : such a glory ..."
6. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"... unto eternal blessedness; and upon the covenant made with him as the covenant
of God in Christ, concerning that blessedness and the requisites thereto. ..."
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