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beatitude
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tags: [christianity]
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Definition:1. (uncountable) Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness.2. Any one of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth"(Matthew 5:5).text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Then, when she had her medal, she looked at it, and a smile of beatitude spread over her face; and as she walked away they could hear her muttering "I'll give it to our cure up home, to say some masses for me!"
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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For lunch it was the Beatitudes. Blessed be this, blessed be that.
Of course they couldn't pass a portrait of Jesus without comment. "Blessed are--" Edward Bonshaw began to say; the portrait was of Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount.Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
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"Oh, those endearing beatitudes!" Vargus interrupted him. "My favorite part of the Bible - not that anyone pays attention to the beatitudes; they are not what most Church business is about.
John Irving. Avenue of Mysteries, p.277 (2015)
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And you recited the Beatitudes with hardly a hitch, two times over, absolutely shining with the magnitude of the accomplishment, as well you might.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.185 (2004)
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