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Synonyms for beatitude

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bee-at-i-tood, -tyood
Phonetic Transcription : biˈæt ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud

Définition of beatitude

Origin :
  • early 15c., "supreme happiness," from Middle French béatitude (15c.) and directly from Latin beatitudinem (nominative beatitudo) "state of blessedness," from past participle stem of beare "make happy," related to bene-. As "a declaration of blessedness" (usually plural, beatitudes, especially in reference to the Sermon on the Mount) it is attested from 1520s.
  • noun blessedness
Example sentences :
  • Roudier and Granoux came to rouse him from this state of beatitude.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • There is a beatitude for such as you—'Blessed are the poor in spirit.'
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • Paten smiled pleasantly at this picture of beatitude, and smoked on.
  • Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
  • The worn, seamed face lifted to his was transfigured by its look of beatitude.
  • Extract from : « David Dunne » by Belle Kanaris Maniates
  • It exudes warmth, strength, beatitude, yet there is none of the animal.
  • Extract from : « Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess » by Henry W. Fischer
  • For they are so filled with the joy of their beatitude that sorrow finds no place in them.
  • Extract from : « On Prayer and The Contemplative Life » by St. Thomas Aquinas
  • And what Beatitude means is, with many, a source of much dispute.
  • Extract from : « On Prayer and The Contemplative Life » by St. Thomas Aquinas
  • They went about in a state of Elysian beatitude, these young people.
  • Extract from : « An Old Meerschaum » by David Christie Murray
  • The toad is a fakeer, and thinks the beatitude of life lies in contemplation.
  • Extract from : « Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida » by Ouida
  • But it may be punished after death by a shorter or longer exclusion from that beatitude.
  • Extract from : « Mystics and Saints of Islam » by Claud Field

Antonyms for beatitude

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