beatify
Americanverb (used with object)
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beatifies,
present (3rd person singular)
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beatified,
past participle, past
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beatifying
present participle
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to make blissfully happy.
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Roman Catholic Church. to declare (a deceased person) to be among the blessed and therefore entitled to local but not universal veneration.
verb
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(tr) RC Church (of the pope) to declare formally that (a deceased person) showed a heroic degree of holiness in his or her life and therefore is worthy of public veneration: the first step towards canonization
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(tr) to make extremely happy
Other Word Forms
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Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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beatifysimple
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beatifiessimple
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have beatifiedperfect
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has beatifiedperfect
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am beatifyingprogressive
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are beatifyingprogressive
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is beatifyingprogressive
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have been beatifyingperfect progressive
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has been beatifyingperfect progressive
Past
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beatifiedsimple
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had beatifiedperfect
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was beatifyingprogressive
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were beatifyingprogressive
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had been beatifyingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of beatify
First recorded in 1525–35; from Middle French beatifier, from Late Latin beātificāre; see beatific ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The service to beatify Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children will be held on Sunday in the Polish town of Markowa where they died in March 1944.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2023
On Sunday, Pope Francis will beatify John Paul I, the last formal step before possible sainthood.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
On the final day of his four-day visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass to beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, the 19th century Anglican convert.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2020
Bruni leaps to beatify Christakis in his ascent to his pantheon of academic excellence, because a martyr must become a saint.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2019
It is an innate element of the human constitution, designed to beautify and beatify man.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
We’d be fools to believe that switching to another early-morning exercise class, or picking a new favorite set of superheroes, or forgoing Bean Boots this fall, automatically beatifies us.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019
They rescue creatures from the trash — a salvation from a sad death that eternally beatifies bird and beast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2018
Murnane’s is a vision that blesses and beatifies every detail.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
Pope Francis will pay tribute to some of South Korea's first Catholics when he beatifies 124 Korean Catholics who died in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2014
So far as He is the good which of its very nature beatifies all with supernatural beatitude, He is love with the love of charity.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
Vietnam has had 117 people beatified and later canonised as saints, but the Church said this was the first time a beatification ceremony had been held in the country rather than at the Vatican.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
For them, there is more than just basketball at play and their issue isn’t with Clark, but rather the hype machine that has beatified her.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
This was the first time an entire family has been beatified, a great honour and a step towards sainthood.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2023
It is the first time that an entire family has been beatified.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
After a little further conversation with the now placated Gussie, Marjorie shook hands with her and left her in a beatified state of mind.
From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Pauline Lester
Benedict XVI cleared the path to Archbishop Romero’s sainthood shortly before resigning in 2013, and Francis fast-tracked his conversion to sainthood, beatifying him in 2015 as a martyr.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2018
In beatifying Pope Paul VI, Francis was honoring the architect of Vatican II, which modernized the church in the 1960s and 1970s.
From US News ● Oct. 20, 2014
Knappenberger approaches his subject as a true believer, beatifying and martyring Swartz instead of sitting with the contradictions of his life.
From The Verge ● Jun. 27, 2014
By beatifying Father Puglisi, the Church is making a strong stand against mafia crime - which has been protected by a code of silence - the BBC's David Willey in Rome says.
From BBC ● May 26, 2013
What pipe was ever thus beatifying in effect?
From Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame
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