Blessed

Word BLESSED
Character 7
Hyphenation bless ed
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Blessed"

What do we mean by blessed?

Worthy of worship; holy. adjective

Held in veneration; revered. adjective

Used as a title before the name of one who has been beatified. adjective

Bringing happiness, pleasure, or contentment. adjective

Used as an intensive. adjective

Consecrated; holy: as, the blessed sacrament.

Worthy of adoration: as, the blessed Trinity.

Enjoying supreme happiness or felicity; favored with blessings; highly favored; happy; fortunate: as, “England's blessed shore,”

Specifically Enjoying spiritual blessings and the favor of God; enjoying heavenly felicity; beatified.

Fraught with or imparting blessings; bestowing happiness, health, or prosperity.

Bringing happiness; pleasurable; joyful: as, a most blessed time; “a blessed sight to see,”

Endowed with or possessing healing virtues.

By euphemism: Cursed; damned; confounded: a term of mitigated objurgation, and often merely emphatic without objurgation: as, the blessed thing gave way; our blessed system of caucusing; he lost every blessed cent he had.

Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. adjective

Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored. adjective

Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful. adjective

Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity. adjective

Beatified. adjective

Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. adjective

To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.

To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify.

To invoke divine favor upon.

To honor as holy, glorify; to extol for excellence.

To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.

To wave; to brandish.

(past tense only blessed) To turn (a reference) into an object.

(with from) To secure, defend, or prevent from.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Blessed

The word "blessed" in example sentences

His precious remains rest quietly in the fresh made grave; his immortal spirit has winged its flight to the mansions of the blessed, for “blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. ❋ Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless (N/A)

The highest conception we can form of heaven is the reversal of all the evil of earth, and the completion of its incomplete good: the sinless purity -- the blessed presence of God -- the fulfilment of all desires -- the service which is _blessed_, not toil -- the changelessness which is progress, not stagnation. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Surprise, and caused him to break forth as he did, "I have blessed him, yea and he shall be blessed," would never have permitted or impowered _Isaac_, to have _blessed Esau_, in an _effectual_ manner beyond his Brother: Or if a mere Pronouncing of Words, when uttered as a Blessing from the Heads of Families, was in itself an ❋ Richard Finch (1736)

No one can doubt that she is a lamb of the Saviour's fold, and if he is about to gather her into his bosom -- "She paused, overcome by emotion, then added in a tremulous tone," It will be a sad thing to _us_, no doubt, but to her -- dear little one -- a blessed, _blessed_ change. " ❋ Martha Finley (1868)

But though it be easy to defme the term blessed, when applied to the Deity, jet it is not so easy to form clear and just conceptions of the blessed - ness, or happiness of a being, who is all mind, or a pure immaterial spirit. ❋ Unknown (1812)

Police say the toddler's stepfather admitted to inserting what he called the blessed needles in a series of bizarre rituals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There were some 100 claims of different miracles, but they're presenting this one as the official one to make him what they call blessed and then they'll need another miracle in order to make him a saint. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So we treat our traditions, so we hail the demand of Ireland for what I call a blessed oblivion of the past. ❋ Irvah Lester Winter (N/A)

"Oh!" said Jack, "I was only a considering what they calls the blessed aspect of the sky, and it seems to me there is a sort of kind of look about things as says that there won't be no marriage at all to-day." ❋ Unknown (1847)

At age 36, Leyva found herself pregnant with what she calls her "blessed surprise," daughter Alexandria. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"I attempted to use an explosive device, which under US law is called a weapon of mass destruction, which I call a blessed weapon to save the lives of innocent Muslims for the US used weapons of mass destruction on innocent Muslims," he told the court. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The state of the blessed is a state of joy, not only because all tears shall then be wiped away, but all the springs of comfort shall be opened to them, and the fountains of joy broken up. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The new pope's choice of the name Benedict, from the Latin word for "blessed," is a reminder of the previous 15 Pope Benedicts and the saints with that name. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Jacopone is often called blessed, and has been considered a "blessed" or a "saint", in the technical sense of the words, by different authors. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The prayer with which in the preceding rite the five grains of incense were blessed is now said for the Paschal candle itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Later that afternoon, Father Michael Martin blessed animals for the annual Blessing of the Animals service. ❋ Bill Chameides (2010)

Not easy, this getting older, and how blessed is your belle-mère to have you there for support, both physical and emotional. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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