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Blessed   /blɛst/   Listen
Blessed

adjective
1.
Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace).  Synonym: blest.  "The blessed assurance of a steady income"
2.
Worthy of worship.
3.
Expletives used informally as intensifiers.  Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal.  "It's a blamed shame" , "A blame cold winter" , "Not a blessed dime" , "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing" , "He's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool" , "A deuced idiot" , "An infernal nuisance"
4.
Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration.  Synonym: beatified.
5.
Enjoying the bliss of heaven.
6.
Characterized by happiness and good fortune.


Bless

verb
(past & past part. blessed or blest; pres. part. blessing)
1.
Give a benediction to.
2.
Confer prosperity or happiness on.
3.
Make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate.  Synonym: sign.
4.
Render holy by means of religious rites.  Synonyms: consecrate, hallow, sanctify.



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"Blessed" Quotes from Famous Books



... look of honest friendliness as he answered, "The simplest work you do in that spirit will be blessed. Miss Wetheridge, I hope you will soon find some more people like Mrs. Jocelyn and her daughters. Good-by now for a short time," and a moment later Mildred saw him talking just as kindly, but differently, to a very ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe
... of Avallon (later identified with Glastonbury), whither Arthur was carried, completes the likeness to the Irish Elysium. No tempest, excess of heat or cold, nor noxious animal afflicts it; it is blessed with eternal spring and with fruit and flowers growing without labour; it is the land of eternal youth, unvisited by death or disease. It has a regia virgo lovelier than her lovely attendants; she cured Arthur of his wounds, hence she is the Morgen of other tales, and she and her maidens may ...
— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch
... to a heart like mine. The man, who has been blessed with the good opinion of my Charlotte, must ...
— The Contrast • Royall Tyler
... day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which ...
— The Astronomy of the Bible - An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References - of Holy Scripture • E. Walter Maunder
... what it was in ancient times, the blessed stream, the vivifying artery of Palestine. Taking their source in the spotless snows and pure springs of Mount Hermon, its waters have retained the azure hues of the sky and the clearness of crystal. Before the catastrophe, the Jordan, after having traversed and fertilized Palestine, ...
— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum


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