blissful
Adjective

blissful

  1. Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.
    • 1738, Samuel Johnson, "London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal", lines 25-26,
      In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew,
      And call Britannia's glories back to view;
    • 1983, James Hijiya, "American Gravestones and Attitudes toward Death: A Brief History," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 127, no. 5., page 349,
      New England carvers between the 1720s and the 1750s transformed, step by step, the winged skull into the winged face, adding flesh to bare bone and turning the toothy grin of death into the blissful smile of a saved soul.
  2. (obsolete) Blessed; glorified.
    • c1387, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Prioress' Tale," in The Canterbury Tales,
      Thus had this widow her little son y-taught
      Our blissful Lady, Christe's mother dear,
      To worship aye
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