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Webster 1913 Edition


Blessedness

Bless′ed-ness

,
Noun.
The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.
The assurance of a future
blessedness
.
Tillotson.
Single blessedness
,
the unmarried state.
“Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.”
Shak.
Syn. – Delight; beatitude; ecstasy. See
Happiness
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Blessedness

BLESS'EDNESS

,
Noun.
Happiness; felicity; heavenly joys; the favor of God.
1.
Sanctity.

Definition 2024


blessedness

blessedness

English

Noun

blessedness (countable and uncountable, plural blessednesses)

  1. The state or condition of being blessed, holy.
    • 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1
      Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood
      To undergo such maiden pilgrimage:
      But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
      Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,
      Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.

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