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What does "blessed" mean?

Blessed: Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored. All generations shall call me blessed. Luke i.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Towards England's blessed shore. Shak.
  2. 3.Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful. "Then was a blessed time." "So blessed a disposition." Shak.
  3. 4.Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven. Reverenced like a blessed saint. Shak. Cast out from God and blessed vision. Milton.
  4. 5.(R. C. Ch.) Beatified.
  5. 6.Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free. R. D. Blackmore.

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