blissen

verb

blissen

verb

Etymology From bliss + -en (verbal suffix).

1

To make blissful or happy; fill with or impart bliss to

  • True goodness infallibly blissens the bosom in which it assumes an influential position.1840, Henry Wright, Retrospective Sketch:
  • All solemnly and thankfully I feel its blissening power As ringing out victoriously.1860, Anne Bowman, Esperanza: My Journey Thither and what I Found There, page 314:
2 more examples
  • I very unceremoniously hid her in my heart and took her to my room to blissen my dreams.1846, The American Whig Review, volume 3, page 377:
  • Why the immense self-pleasure that mental culture would afford, and the blissening consciousness of doing good with it to those around him.1969, Robert Owen, The New Moral World, volume 8, page 375:

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