Blessed
English
Etymology
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Proper noun
Blessed
- A surname
Adjective
Blessed
- (Roman Catholicism) An epithet indicating that a person has been beatified.
- Alternative letter-case form of blessed used when referring to an important figure, such as God, or to an important item or event.
- 2012, Charles M. Stang, Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite, →ISBN, page 62:
- This emendation is echoed in Thekla's reunion with Paul outside the city, where she offers the following prayer of thanksgiving: God, King and Blessed Creator of everything, and Father of your great and only begotten Child, I give you thanks.