beatitude : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: beatitude	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beatitude n a state of supreme happiness [syn: blessedness, beatitude, beatification] one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); "her favorite Beatitude is `Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beatitude \Beat"itude\, n. [L. beatitudo: cf. F. b[82]atitude. See {Beatify}.] 1. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss. 2. Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (--Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues. 3. (R. C. Ch.) Beatification. --Milman. Syn: Blessedness; felicity; happiness.