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blessed Definition

blessed (for 1-2, blest, also bles′id; for 3-5, bles′id, also blest)

adjective

  1. holy; sacred; consecrated
  2. enjoying great happiness; blissful
  3. of or in eternal bliss; a title applied to a person who has been beatified
  4. bringing comfort or joy
  5. confounded; cursed: an intensive

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blessed Idioms

the blessed

(for 1, blest or bles′id; for 2, bles′id, also blest)
  1. people who are blessed
  2. Theol. those dead whose souls are in heaven
blessed Synonyms

blessed

modif.

  1. Joyful

    joyous, glad, content, blissful; see happy 1.

  2. Marked by God's favor, especially in heaven

    saved, redeemed, glorified, translated, exalted, rewarded, resurrected, enthroned among the angels, sanctified, glorious, beatified, holy, spiritual, religious.

    Antonyms lost, doomed*, accursed. *

  3. Consecrated

    sacred, dedicated, sanctified, holy; see divine 2.

  4. Fortunate

    favored, graced, lucky; see fortunate 1.

  5. *Damned

    confounded*, blamed*, blasted*, darned*; see damned 2.

blessed Usage Examples

Object

  • O: Wherefore, we magnify thee, O most blessed Virgin.
  • thou: Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.
  • trinity: Was not the Father, the first Person of the blessed Trinity, most willing for this?

Subject

  • priest: The conference was blessed by a priest in flowing robes who just happened to be a PhD informatics student.

Modifying Another Word

  • abundantly: A little of what is lawful will be abundantly blessed, and abundance of what is unlawful will be wasted.
  • forever: They began to worship the birds and the animals and they served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever, amen.
  • truly: Father we are truly blessed, may you bless those who are less fortunate.
  • indeed: Blessed indeed are the people of whom this is true; blessed indeed are the people whose God is the Lord.

Preposition: with

  • sunshine: We were blessed with sunshine and all had a great time.
  • weather: Last year's event, at Goring on the river Thames was a superb event, blessed with excellent weather.
  • blessing: Ephesians 1:3, " You've been blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies.
  • talent: Britton was a self-made editor who was blessed with a great talent in the area.
  • beach: Marmaris and it's environs are blessed with several good beaches, some developed, some still isolated.
  • fortune: Even when we are blessed with fortune we can interpret it as hardship.

Preposition: by

  • priest: The conference was blessed by a priest in flowing robes who just happened to be a PhD informatics student.
blessed Quotes

   I was born for opera buffa, as well Thou knowest. Little skill, a little heart, and that is all. So beThou blessed and admit me to Paradise.

—Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Blessedarethe pure inheart for they haveso muchmore to talk about.

—Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones

   Hail to the Chief who in honour advances! Honoured and bless'd be the evergreen Pine!

—Scott, Sir Walter

Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the L gave, and the L hath taken away; blessed be the name of the L.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Blessed ishe who hasbeenabletowinknowledge of the causes of things.

—Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro

   Dichoso el a¤  rbol que es apenas sensitivo, y ma¤  s la piedra dura porque e¤  sa ya no siente, pues no hay dolor ma¤  s grande que el dolor de ser vivo, ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente. Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain isgreater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.

—Dar|¤  o, Rube¤  n pseudonym of Fe¤  lixRube¤  nGarc|¤a Sarmiento

A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware.

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

You're blessed with a woman's brain: vague, slippery, inexact, interested only inthe personal aspect of a thing.

—Lindesay Robertson ne¤  e Richardson

Mr Wickham isblessedwith suchhappymanners asmay ensure his making friendsöwhether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

—Austen,Jane

Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the L: we have blessed you out of the house of the L.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

—Aristotle

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Et si uxoris nomen sanctius ac validius videtur, dulcius mihi semper exstitit amic× vocabulum; aut si non indigneris, concubin× vel scorti. Ifthename of wifeseemsmore blessed or more binding, always sweeter to me will be the word lover, or if I may, concubine or whore.

—He¤  lo|«  se