blessedness

From Middle English blessednesse, equivalent to blessed +‎ -ness.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛsɪdnɪs/

blessedness (countable and uncountable, plural blessednesses)

1. The state or condition of being blessed, holy.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. As it Hath Beene Sundry Times Publikely Acted, by the Right Honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants, [London]: Printed by Iames Roberts, published 1600, OCLC 35186948, [Act I, scene i]:

     Thrice bleſſed they that maſter ſo their blood / To vndergo ſuch maiden pilgrimage, / But earthlier happy is the Roſe diſtild / Than that which, withering on the virgin thorne, / Growes, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.

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