blessedness

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English blessednesse, equivalent to blessed +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛsɪdnɪs/

Noun

blessedness (countable and uncountable, plural blessednesses)

1. The condition or state of being blessed; holy.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.

   • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 19:

     It matters little to tell you of my blessedness; but my very heart was filled with the light of those radiant eyes, which were to me what the sun is to the world.

Translations

condition or state of being blessed

• Dutch: gelukzaligheid (nl) f, zaligheid (nl) f, gezegendheid f
• French: béatitude (fr) f
• German: Glückseligkeit (de) f, Seligkeit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: μακαριότης f (makariótēs)

• Latin: beatitūdō f
• Polish: błogostan (pl) f, błogość (pl) f

Anagrams

• bedlessness