blessednessn.
/ˈblɛsɪdnɪs/ a. The state of being blessed, esp. with Divine favour; felicity; beatitude. Also concrete.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun]
blissc1175
Edena1225
heaven bliss?c1225
joyc1275
blessedheada1300
blissfulheada1340
third heavenc1384
paradisec1395
benisona1400
blessednessa1400
heavena1413
jocundnessc1426
everlastingness1434
jocundityc1450
beatitudea1492
beatification1502
blessedfulness1526
beautitude1578
Elysiuma1616
suavitya1617
seventh heaven1786
heaven of heavens1885
society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > blessing > [noun] > blessedness
blessedheada1300
benisona1400
blessednessa1400
beatitudea1492
beautitude1578
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17080 Qua mai tel þe teind part þe blisced-nes o þe!
c1400 Epiph. in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 124 We may not haue full the blessednes Of thi vysage nor of thi presence.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 73 Delyuered from the seuen dedly synnes, and so to come vnto the seuen blssednesses [sic].
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. ii. 66 He..found the Blessednesse of being little. View more context for this quotation
1748 J. Hervey Contempl. Night in Medit. & Contempl. (ed. 2) II. 13 An Antepast of eternal Blessedness.
1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 70 I have a quiet home-feeling of the blessedness of my condition.
b. single blessedness: used by Shakespeare to express ‘divine blessing accorded to a life of celibacy’; hence (more or less jocularly), the unmarried state.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [noun] > state or condition of
singleness1560
single blessedness1600
unweddedness1830
singledom1851
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 78 Earthlyer happy is the rose distild, Then that, which, withering on the virgin thorne, Growes, liues, and dies, in single blessednesse . View more context for this quotation
1823 C. Lamb My Relations in Elia 160 She was one whom single blessedness had soured.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 2 Single blessedness, as bachelors say, or single cursedness, as spinsters think.
c. Used as a title of honour. Cf. holiness n.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun]
popeeOE
apostoilec1275
vicary1303
vicar1340
bridge maker1341
Antichristc1370
vicar generalc1386
Holy Fatherc1400
servant of the servants of Godc1405
His Holy Fatherhood?a1425
universal bishopc1475
holiness1502
harlot1535
papa1555
Apostolic seat1560
vicegerent1572
man of Rome1581
pontiff1583
bullman1588
apostolicship1599
Pontifex Maximus1610
infallibleship1613
sanctity1633
popeship1641
decretaliarch1656
blessedness1670
Holy seata1674
infallibilityship1679
pontifexa1680
holyshipc1680
unholiness1682
His Infallibility1834
Pape1927
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 94 The Popes began to usurp the Titles of Holiness, and Blessedness.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. iii. 78 The Landgrave Lewis With humble greetings prays his blessedness To make, etc.
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