blessedness
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈblɛsɪdnɪs/
Noun

blessedness

  1. The condition or state of being blessed; holy.
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i] ↗:
      But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.
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