blest
Americanadjective
verb
verb
Etymology
Origin of blest
First recorded in 1560–70, for the adjective
Example Sentences
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I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine.
From Literature
“All hail, sage lady, whom a grateful isle hath blest,” says a photographer to Elizabeth at the end of Season 1, aptly quoting the patriotic doggerel of Wordsworth’s “Ecclesiastical Sonnets.”
From New York Times
When Lord Grosvenor raised a cup carved from Shakespeare’s mulberry tree, treating the “blest relic” as if it were a chalice filled with Communion wine, the eyebrows of the more puritan present were raised high.
From New York Times
“Protection she shall find in me. In me, be ever blest.”
From Washington Post
It is “twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”
From New York Times
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