beatificationn.
/biːˌatɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The action of rendering, or condition of being rendered, supremely happy or blessed.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun]
blissc1175
Edena1225
heaven bliss?c1225
joyc1275
blessedheada1300
blissfulheada1340
third heavenc1384
paradisec1395
benisona1400
blessednessa1400
heavena1413
jocundnessc1426
everlastingness1434
jocundityc1450
beatitudea1492
beatification1502
blessedfulness1526
beautitude1578
Elysiuma1616
suavitya1617
seventh heaven1786
heaven of heavens1885
the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] > making supremely happy
beatification1502
beatifying1629
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. xviii. sig. n.vv The blessyd trynyte it promytteth for to gyue unto us eternall beatyfycacyon.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 342 All our Beatification, and Glorification in our bodies consists in this.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 5 That picture which Horace has given us of human beatification.
1865 J. M. Neale Hymns Paradise 66 What the beatification Of the spirits round the Throne?
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a. Roman Catholic Church. An act of the Pope, by which he declares that a deceased member of the Church is in the enjoyment of heavenly bliss, and grants to certain persons the privilege of paying a particular form of worship or reverence to him.This ceremony is the first step towards canonization, which confers the full honours of a saint, and makes worship of him incumbent on the whole Church.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > canonization > [noun]
canonizationc1380
canonizingc1380
sainting1570
beatification1629
canonicationa1641
consecrationa1676
beatitude1837
sanctification1855
1629 L. Owen Speculum Iesuiticum (new ed.) 32 You may see, how the..Beatification and Canonization of this wicked..Ignatius did..fore-shew some great disaster.
1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1790) I. xlii. 454 I have been witness to the beatification of a saint.
1864 Daily Tel. 6 May To hear his Holiness read a couple of decrees—one of beatification, the other of canonisation.
1887 N.E.D. at Beatification Mod. The beatification of Joan of Arc.
b. transferred with allusion to the halo of a saint.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > [noun] > some kind of scientific experiment
beatification1794
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. xlvi. 334 This experiment [with silvered leather on the head] has been called the diadem of beatification.
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