Definition of beatitude

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be·at·i·tude    (b-t-td, -tyd) KEY 

NOUN:

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.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French, from Latin betitd, from betus, happy ; see beatific