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BLEST
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
Example:
the blessed assurance of a steady income
Synonyms:
blessed; blest
Classified under:
Similar:
fortunate; golden (supremely favored)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb bless
Context examples:
So it was, though in a softened degree, when I went to my neat room at night; and, turning over the leaves of the crocodile-book (which was always there, upon a little table), remembered with a grateful heart how blest I was in having such a friend as Steerforth, such a friend as Peggotty, and such a substitute for what I had lost as my excellent and generous aunt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When we cried, and made it up, and were so blest again, that the back kitchen, mangle and all, changed to Love's own temple, where we arranged a plan of correspondence through Miss Mills, always to comprehend at least one letter on each side every day!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
