Sample sentences for BEATITUDE

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Definition

a state of supreme happiness

or:

one of the nine sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount — each of which begin with the word "blessed" ("beatus" in Latin)

Her favorite Beatitude is "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth."

beatitude = one of the nine sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount

...the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom...
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Pasting it Together
...she had no appetite, and could only sit and smile upon everyone in a general state of beatitude.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
The soul which is in the soul of each, craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behavior of the other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Essays, First Series
All of his depravity had been enacted in a vacuum of sinless and businesslike godlessness, while his soul thirsted for beatitude.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Yet, thinking on the Beatitudes, on the Sermon on the Mount, on St. John and his direct seeing and interpretation of Christ and God.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
Not till I had repeated the Blessings' (he meant the Buddhist Beatitudes) 'did I achieve calm.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
Like a saint's vision of beatitude.
Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night
If I wasn't having one tonight it wasn't because I had passed beyond it into a state of beatitude.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
The prince had confessed unreservedly to himself that the feeling of intense beatitude in that crowded moment made the moment worth a lifetime.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
It was during such a solitude, with his body sinking and his mind lifted to beatitude, that he had hoped to give up his soul .... but it did not happen so.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
I have memorized the names of all the books of the Bible, in order, and the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer, and most of the Beatitudes.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
For lunch it was the Beatitudes.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
You look like a Christian Beatitude.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
A strange look of beatitude overspread his features, his eyes sparkled in the light of the candle burning between us; he positively smiled!
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
His patients, who were all women, stood in smiling poses—provocative poses, Matron thought—that Charcot had labeled "Crucifixion" and "Beatitude."
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
She was weeping, her face contorted by the comical and ugly grimace that is far more terrible than any quiet beatitude of sorrow.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
She followed him, verse after verse, through the Beatitudes and Let your light so shine, and on, skipping, to Consider the lilies.
Ouida Sebestyen -- Words by Heart
The reward for perfect observance was Beatitude, or absorption into the being of Brahm, which was not existence as much as absolute rest.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
She stayed till Hannah came to take her home to dinner, but she had no appetite, and could only sit and smile upon everyone in a general state of beatitude.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women

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