blessedness
noun/ˈblɛsɪdnɪs/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English blessednesse, equivalent to blessed + -ness.
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The condition or state of being blessed; holy.
- But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- It matters little to tell you of my blessedness; but my very heart was filled with the light of those radiant eyes, which were to me what the sun is to the world.1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 19: