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expressing or producing a calm joy — especially from a holy source- She has a beatific smile that makes you feel like all is well in the world.
beatific = expressing a calm joy
- Behind that beatific smile lies a psychotic killer.
- Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen.George Orwell -- Animal Farm
- Her excitement had in a measure kept her warm during the few minutes' adventure; but that beatific interval was over.Hardy, Thomas -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman
- The curtains were half drawn, and only admitted the mysterious light calculated for beatific reveries.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Three Musketeers
- Mademoiselle Bourienne stood near them pressing her hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to cry or to laugh.Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
- beatific peace
- She continued to stare at the photograph before turning toward him with a dazed and beatific smile.Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
- Its face was beatific, but there was a crack that ran from temple to chin, marring the face for some past transgression.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- "This one seems to bring out bizarrely strong reactions in our kind," she observed, smiling directly at me, her face beatific.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- She always looks worried when I'm at the dictionary so I tell her I'm looking for canonize or beatific or any class of a religious word.Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
- Jane turned toward us with a beatific smile.Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- Dark, soulful eyes and that small, mysterious, beatific smile.Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
- She was looking up at the building now with a beatific expression, her small face aglow with what Simon could only guess was anticipation.Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
- And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in beatific silence, all —dwindled away to peace.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- Her excitement had in a measure kept her warm during the few minutes' adventure; but that beatific interval was over.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- And so, in this beatific state, something came out of her.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- And so, in this beatific state, something came out of her.Eudora Welty -- The Golden Apples
- They all smiled beatifically.Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
- The curtains were half drawn, and only admitted the mysterious light calculated for beatific reveries.Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
beatific = expressing a calm joy
beatifically = with a calm joy