benedight
adjEtymology From Middle English benedyght, benedight, from Latin benedictus. More at benedict, benediction.
- When we had reached the Angel benedight With joyful voice he said: "Here enter in To stairway far less steep than are the others."1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio: Canto XV
- Never through martyrdom of fire was led To its repose; nor can in books be read The legend of a life more benedight.1879, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Cross of Snow:
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- How fondly I remember the delight That always glorified him in the spring; The joyous profusion and the benedight Profusion of his faith in everything!1910, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Uncle Ananias”, in The Town Down the River: