beatitude
[noun]
Synonyms: happiness, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness

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Antonyms: despair, dolor
Contrasted words: affliction, trial, tribulation, anguish, grief, sorrow, woe, agony, suffering
Related Words: ecstasy, rapture, transport

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beatitude noun. [bɪ'atɪtju:d] LME.
[Old & mod. French béatitude or Latin beatitudo, from beatus blessed: see -TUDE.]
1. Supreme blessedness; bliss. LME.

2. A declaration of blessedness, a blessing; spec. (in pl.) those made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:3-11). E16.

3. his Beatitude, your Beatitude: an honorific patriarchal title in the Orthodox Church. M17.

4. = BEATIFICATION 2. M19.

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