1. Supreme blessedness or happiness. 2.Beatitude Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. 3.Beatitude Used as a title and form of address for a patriarch in the Armenian Church or a metropolitan in the Russian Orthodox Church: Your Beatitude.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French, from Latin betitd, from betus, happy. See beatific.
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