Blitheness; gladness; joy, delight, enjoyment. Mental, ethereal, spiritual: perfect joy or felicity, supreme delight; blessedness. (Early instances…
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释义 | the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] (39) blissc1175 Blitheness; gladness; joy, delight, enjoyment. Mental, ethereal, spiritual: perfect joy or felicity, supreme delight; blessedness. (Early instances… Edena1225 transferred and figurative. A delightful abode or resting-place, a paradise; a state of supreme happiness. heaven bliss?c1225 = bliss, n. 2c. Also: a state or feeling of great happiness. joyc1275 A pleasurable state or condition; a state of happiness or felicity; esp. the perfect bliss or beatitude of heaven; hence, the place of bliss… blessedheada1300 Blessedness, beatitude. blissfulheada1340 Blissful condition, joy, beatitude. third heavenc1384 the abode of God (as opposed to the visible sky and the region of space beyond it); (figurative) a place or state of supreme bliss (now rare); cf… paradisec1395 A state or condition of supreme bliss or happiness; the enjoyment of this. See also fool's paradise, n. benisona1400 Blessing, beatitude. That which any one receives; beatitude. blessednessa1400 The state of being blessed, esp. with Divine favour; felicity; beatitude. Also concrete. heavena1413 A state of supreme bliss; an immensely enjoyable experience. In later use frequently with infinitive phrase. jocundnessc1426 = jocundity, n. 2. Obsolete. everlastingness1434 Eternity as opposed to time; the future state of blessedness, heaven; eternal well-being. Obsolete. jocundityc1450 Pleasure, delight, joy, happiness (of a high or spiritual kind). Obsolete. beatitudea1492 Supreme blessedness or happiness. beatification1502 The action of rendering, or condition of being rendered, supremely happy or blessed. blessedfulness1526 beautitude1578 = beatitude, n. 1a. Also in extended use: supreme happiness. Elysiuma1616 figurative. A place or state of ideal or perfect happiness. suavitya1617 A state of sweet calm in the soul when specially favoured by God; plural feelings of spiritual sweetness or delight. Obsolete. seventh heaven1786 figurative. A place or state of supreme bliss. Now chiefly in in seventh heaven: ecstatically happy. Formerly also with the. Cf. third heaven n. heaven of heavens1885 the most exalted level of heaven; (figurative) a place of supreme bliss; cf. seventh heaven, n. Subcategories:— place of supreme happiness (14) — making supremely happy (2) — source of supreme or heavenly happiness (1) |
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