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noun

Beatitude n.

Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.

Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.

(R. C. Ch.) Beatification.

Synonyms: Blessedness; felicity; happiness.

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Etymology of 'Beatitude'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Beatitude" Quotes from Famous Books

... continue a source of blessing and benefit to his fellow-creatures as yet dwelling in the shade of mortality! The thought of the services of my bell, in averting lightning and inundation from the good people of Epinal, fills me with indescribable beatitude." ...

— The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales • Richard Garnett

... interrupted by some wonder 'How will he bring it off'? And when he has searched and contrived to 'ask us,' are we responsive to the ecstacy? Has he not—if I may employ an Oriental trope for once—let in the chill breath of cleverness upon the garden of beatitude? No man can be clever and ecstatic at ...

— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch

... Janet, though he was present. This sagacious speaker (a faculty of Madame B.'s own nature) is 'brought out' by repeated passes, and when this moral and sensible phase of her character is thus evoked, Madame B. is 'Leonore.' Madame B. now sometimes assumes an expression of beatitude, smiling and looking upwards. As Dunois said of Jeanne when she was recalling her visions, 'miro modo exsultabat, levando suos oculos ad coelum.' This ecstasy Madame B. (as Leonie) dimly remembers, averring that 'she has been dazzled BY A LIGHT ...

— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang

... in form, between the two passages is more remarkable than the resemblance, and the interpretation, the moral of Byron's vision is distinct from, if not alien to, Wordsworth's. The "Solitary" sees all heaven opened; the revealed abode of spirits in beatitude—a refuge and a redemption from "this low world of care;" while Myrrha drinks in "enough of heaven," a medicament of "Sorrow and of Love," for the invigoration of "the common, heavy, human hours" of mortal existence. For a charge of "imitation," see Works of Lord ...

— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron

... Denis, she beat wrong time with her head, with an air of beatitude which did infinitely more honor to her maternal affection than to ...

— The Conspirators - The Chevalier d'Harmental • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

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