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Webster 1913 Edition


Blest

Blest

,
Adj.
Blessed.
“This patriarch blest.”
Milton.
White these
blest
sounds my ravished ear assail.
Trumbull.

Webster 1828 Edition


Blest

BLEST

,
pp.
of bless.

BLEST

,
Adj.
Made happy.
1.
Making happy; cheering.
While these blest sounds my rafish'd ear assail.

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blest

blest

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blest

  1. Archaic spelling of blessed: simple past tense and past participle of bless
    • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:
      Doth she not count her blest, / Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought / So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?
    • 1850, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre:
      I hold myself supremely blest — blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

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