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Definition of Blest
1. Adjective. Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace). "The blessed assurance of a steady income"
Definition of Blest
1. a. Blessed.
Definition of Blest
1. Verb. (archaic spelling of blessed): (past of bless) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blest
1. bless [v] - See also: bless
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blest
Literary usage of Blest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"There's nanc that's blest of human kind But the cheerful and the gay, ... Nature^
And e'en when this beauty your bosom has blest, The brightest o' ..."
2. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"Wouldst read thyself, and read thou knowest not what, And yet know whether thou
art blest or not, By reading the same lines ? 0 then come hither, ..."
3. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"Elysion, The Islands of the blest. ... a land of eternal happiness with broad
flowery fields known now as Elysion, and now as the Islands of the blest. ..."
4. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"Elysion, The Islands of the blest. — The domain of Hades was not, however, the
only abode of those who had come to the end of this life, for there was, ..."
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