blessed
EnglishEdit
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- Adjective
- Verb
AdjectiveEdit
blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)
- Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 5:5:
- Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
- (Roman Catholicism) A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.
- Held in veneration; revered.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 6:
- ‘My blessed Public must have a pretty girl’s face. Romance isn’t romance, adventure is as dull as dishwater...to my Public...unless, every so often, a face to sink a thousand ships, or is it saps? shows up.’
- Worthy of worship; holy.
- (informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
- Not one blessed person offered to help me out.
- I'm blessed if I'm going to drive all that way at this time of night.
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- (having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing): condemned, cursed, damned
- (revered): contemned, despised, scorned
- (holy): profane, unhallowed, unholy
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing
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In Catholicism, a title indicating the beatification of a person
worthy of worship; holy
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VerbEdit
blessed
- simple past tense and past participle of bless
AnagramsEdit
YolaEdit
VerbEdit
blessed
- simple past tense of bless
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Blessed yarth amang meyen.
- Blessed art thou amongst women.
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 133