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  • 91beauty — [13] Beauty came via Anglo Norman beute and Old French bealte from Vulgar Latin *bellitas, a derivative of Latin bellus ‘beautiful’ (this developed from an earlier, unrecorded *dwenolos, a diminutive form of Old Latin *duenos, *duonos, which is… …

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  • 92heavenly — a. 1. Celestial, of the firmament, of the visible heavens. 2. Divine, angelic, seraphic, cherubic, god like, celestial, blest, saintly, sainted, holy, beatified, beatific, glorified. 3. Enrapturing, ravishing, rapturous, enravishing, ecstatic,… …

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  • 93beauty — [13] Beauty came via Anglo Norman beute and Old French bealte from Vulgar Latin *bellitas, a derivative of Latin bellus ‘beautiful’ (this developed from an earlier, unrecorded *dwenolos, a diminutive form of Old Latin *duenos, *duonos, which is… …

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  • 94angelical — adjective 1. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint angelic beneficence a beatific smile a saintly concern for his fellow men my sainted mother • Syn: ↑angelic, ↑beatific, ↑saintlike, ↑ …

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  • 95sainted — adjective marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint angelic beneficence a beatific smile a saintly concern for his fellow men my sainted mother • Syn: ↑angelic, ↑angelical, ↑beatific, ↑ …

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  • 96saintlike — adjective marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint angelic beneficence a beatific smile a saintly concern for his fellow men my sainted mother • Syn: ↑angelic, ↑angelical, ↑beatific, ↑ …

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  • 97be|a|tif|i|cal — «BEE uh TIHF uh kuhl», adjective. = beatific. (Cf. ↑beatific) …

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  • 98be´a|tif´i|cal|ly — be|a|tif|ic «BEE uh TIHF ihk», adjective. 1. showing very great happiness; exaltedly happy; blissful: »The saint had a beatific smile. 2. making blessed; blessing or making happy: »a beatific vision. ╂[< Late Latin beātificus < Latin beātus …

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  • 99be|a|tif|ic — «BEE uh TIHF ihk», adjective. 1. showing very great happiness; exaltedly happy; blissful: »The saint had a beatific smile. 2. making blessed; blessing or making happy: »a beatific vision. ╂[< Late Latin beātificus < Latin beātus happy +… …

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  • 100be|at|i|fy — «bee AT uh fy», transitive verb, fied, fy|ing. 1. to make supremely happy; bless. 2. to declare (a dead person) by a decree of the Pope to be among the blessed in heaven and to deserve religious honor. The person beatified is thereafter entitled… …

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