Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: blessed – bliss
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blessed (-er), verbal adj. [see bless, v.] (webplay: esteem, heavenly, life, prayer, pronounce).
- Celestial; divine; special; (see 1 Timothy 1:11).
- Fortunate; lucky; happy; prosperous; endowed with divine protection; enjoying supreme felicity.
blessed (blest), verbal n. [see bless, v.]
- Host; army; legion; multitude; holy ones; consecrated beings; sanctified ones; people favored by God; [possibly a phrase, noun “martial” + verbal adj. “blessed”] courageous soldiers.
- Saint; righteous one; person who has charity (see Matthew 25:34).
blessing, n. [see bless, v.] (webplay: die, heavenly, life, prayer).
- Grace; favor; boon; consecration; religious benefit; miraculous healing; (see 1 Peter 3:9).
- Talent; endowment; advantage; faculty; divinely bestowed ability; (see Genesis 27:38).
blew, v. [see blow, v.]
blind, adj. [OE.] (webplay: eye, light, seeing, sense, sight, view).
Sightless; unable to see; in the dark; lacking the sense of vision; [fig.] ignorant; deficient in spiritual perception; (see John 9:25).
blind (-s), n. [see blind, v.] (webplay: eye, light, seeing, unseen).
- Screen; shutter; window covering; flexible shade for a window.
- Sightless; unseeing ones; people lacking the ability to see; [fig.] ignorant; unobservant; unenlightened; deceived; (see 1 Corinthians 2:9).
blinded, verbal adj. [see blind, adj.] (webplay: eye, seeing).
Covered; unseeing; dazed; made sightless.
blinding, verbal adj. [see blind, adj.] (webplay: sight).
Obscuring; making it difficult to see.
blindness, n. [see blind, adj.] (webplay: dark, eye, heedless, seeing).
- Darkness; obscurity; dusk; night time.
- Sightlessness; inability to see; lack of vision; [fig.] ignorance; lack of spiritual discernment; (see Ephesians 4:18).
bliss (bliss'), n. [OE 'mildness, clemency'.] (webplay: blessedness, degree, exult, happiness, heavenly, highest, joy).
- Joy; delight; happiness; felicity; blessedness; sublime peace.
- Exaltation; afterlife; heavenly joy; eternal happiness; living by the Spirit.