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beatitude

[ bee-at-i-tood, -tyood ]

noun

  1. supreme blessedness; exalted happiness.
  2. (often initial capital letter) any of the declarations of blessedness pronounced by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.


beatitude

1

/ 产瑟藞忙迟瑟藢迟箩耻藧诲 /

noun

  1. supreme blessedness or happiness
  2. an honorific title of the Eastern Christian Church, applied to those of patriarchal rank
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Beatitude

2

/ 产瑟藞忙迟瑟藢迟箩耻藧诲 /

noun

  1. New Testament any of eight distinctive sayings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:3鈥11) in which he declares that the poor, the meek, those that mourn, the merciful, the peacemakers, the pure of heart, those that thirst for justice, and those that are persecuted will, in various ways, receive the blessings of heaven
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of beatitude1

1375鈥1425; late Middle English < Latin 产别腻迟颈迟奴诲艒 perfect happiness, equivalent to 产别腻迟颈- ( beatific ) + -迟奴诲艒 -tude
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of beatitude1

C15: from Latin 产别腻迟颈迟奴诲艒 , from 产别腻迟耻蝉 blessed; see beatific
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鈥淭he church does not know of any means other than baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude鈥 鈥 that is, heaven.

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In the unrepentant shadows it鈥檚 hard to tell if he鈥檚 studying or mediating, but it鈥檚 still a beatitude of Blackness: color as signifier, color as artifact, color as stone cold fact.

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After surgery, Price describes 鈥渁 kind of stunned beatitude.鈥

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There is no Dante in Beatrice鈥檚 beatitude, H盲gglund writes, and no Beatrice in Dante鈥檚 beatitude.

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It also supplies a backdrop of human folly to throw the beatitude of Adam and his robot kin into sharp relief.

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