beatitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a state of supreme happiness or blessedness

   The contemplative described the vision as a moment of perfect beatitude.

2. 2
   noun

   any of the blessings pronounced by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount

   The lesson examined the beatitude promising comfort to those who mourn.

From Middle English beatitude, via Old French from Latin beatitudo, 'happiness or blessedness,' based on beatus, 'happy, blessed.' In Christian use it became especially associated with the blessings in Matthew 5.

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