BEATITUDE
Source: 553, 566, 567
beatitude. beatitude, blessednes, happines
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beatitude. Beatitude, n. happiness, blessedness, bliss, glory
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Be‐at″i‐tude (�), n. [[L. beatitudo: cf. F. béatitude. See Beatify.]] 1. 1. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
2. 2. Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.
3. 3. (R. C. Ch.) Beatification. Milman.
Syn. — Blessedness; felicity; happiness.