See blissen on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bliss",
"3": "en",
"id2": "inchoative",
"pos2": "verbal suffix"
},
"expansion": "bliss + -en (verbal suffix)",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From bliss + -en (verbal suffix).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blissens",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blissening",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blissened",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "blissened",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "blissen (third-person singular simple present blissens, present participle blissening, simple past and past participle blissened)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -en (inchoative)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "41 23 8 6 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "71 9 6 5 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "75 8 5 4 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1840, Henry Wright, Retrospective Sketch:",
"text": "True goodness infallibly blissens the bosom in which it assumes an influential position.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1860, Anne Bowman, Esperanza: My Journey Thither and what I Found There, page 314:",
"text": "All solemnly and thankfully\nI feel its blissening power\nAs ringing out victoriously.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1846, The American Whig Review, volume 3, page 377:",
"text": "I very unceremoniously hid her in my heart and took her to my room to blissen my dreams.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1969, Robert Owen, The New Moral World, volume 8, page 375:",
"text": "Why the immense self-pleasure that mental culture would afford, and the blissening consciousness of doing good with it to those around him.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make blissful or happy; fill with or impart bliss to"
],
"id": "en-blissen-en-verb-KCi70Jgk",
"links": [
[
"blissful",
"blissful"
],
[
"happy",
"happy"
],
[
"impart",
"impart"
],
[
"bliss",
"bliss"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make blissful or happy; fill with or impart bliss to"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "beatify"
},
{
"word": "elate"
},
{
"word": "gladden"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "blissen"
}
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "blīssian"
},
"expansion": "Old English blīssian",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*blīþisōn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *blīþisōn",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old English blīssian, from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisōn.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blisseth",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blissende",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blissynge",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blissed",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"participle",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "weak",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "enm-conj-wk",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "blissen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "to blissen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blissed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blissest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blissedest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blisseth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blissed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "blissed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blissen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blisseden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "blissede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "blisseth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "blissynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blissende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blissed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "yblissed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bliscen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "bliscien",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "blissien",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "blissin",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "blissy",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "blissenn",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "blissen",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"stem": "bliss"
},
"expansion": "blissen (third-person singular simple present blisseth, present participle blissende, blissynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle blissed)",
"name": "enm-verb"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "Early ME"
},
"expansion": "(Early Middle English)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bliss"
},
"name": "enm-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Early Middle English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be glad or joyful."
],
"id": "en-blissen-enm-verb-EdedgYDg",
"links": [
[
"glad",
"glad"
],
[
"joyful",
"joyful"
]
],
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Early Middle English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 34 56 5",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Happiness",
"orig": "enm:Happiness",
"parents": [
"Emotions",
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make joyful; to gladden."
],
"id": "en-blissen-enm-verb-KTHlNHtQ",
"links": [
[
"joyful",
"joyful"
],
[
"gladden",
"gladden"
]
],
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblisən/"
}
],
"word": "blissen"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "blissen",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Early Middle English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "blisse"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of blisse"
],
"id": "en-blissen-enm-noun-RDPys8DH",
"links": [
[
"blisse",
"blisse#Middle_English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Early Middle English) plural of blisse"
],
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "blissen"
}
{
"etymology_number": 3,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "blissen",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "blessen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of blessen"
],
"id": "en-blissen-enm-verb-STUs3Mmg",
"links": [
[
"blessen",
"blessen#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English",
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "blissen"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Happiness"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bliss",
"3": "en",
"id2": "inchoative",
"pos2": "verbal suffix"
},
"expansion": "bliss + -en (verbal suffix)",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From bliss + -en (verbal suffix).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blissens",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blissening",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blissened",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "blissened",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "blissen (third-person singular simple present blissens, present participle blissening, simple past and past participle blissened)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -en (inchoative)",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1840, Henry Wright, Retrospective Sketch:",
"text": "True goodness infallibly blissens the bosom in which it assumes an influential position.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1860, Anne Bowman, Esperanza: My Journey Thither and what I Found There, page 314:",
"text": "All solemnly and thankfully\nI feel its blissening power\nAs ringing out victoriously.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1846, The American Whig Review, volume 3, page 377:",
"text": "I very unceremoniously hid her in my heart and took her to my room to blissen my dreams.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1969, Robert Owen, The New Moral World, volume 8, page 375:",
"text": "Why the immense self-pleasure that mental culture would afford, and the blissening consciousness of doing good with it to those around him.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make blissful or happy; fill with or impart bliss to"
],
"links": [
[
"blissful",
"blissful"
],
[
"happy",
"happy"
],
[
"impart",
"impart"
],
[
"bliss",
"bliss"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make blissful or happy; fill with or impart bliss to"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "beatify"
},
{
"word": "elate"
},
{
"word": "gladden"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "blissen"
}
{
"categories": [
"Early Middle English",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English terms derived from Old English",
"Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English verbs",
"Middle English weak verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Happiness"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "blīssian"
},
"expansion": "Old English blīssian",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*blīþisōn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *blīþisōn",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old English blīssian, from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisōn.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blisseth",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blissende",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blissynge",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blissed",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"participle",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "weak",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "enm-conj-wk",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "blissen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "to blissen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blissed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blissest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blissedest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blisseth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blissed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "blissed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blissen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blisseden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "blissede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "blisseth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "blissynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blissende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blissed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "yblissed",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bliscen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "bliscien",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "blissien",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "blissin",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "blissy",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "blissenn",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "blissen",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"stem": "bliss"
},
"expansion": "blissen (third-person singular simple present blisseth, present participle blissende, blissynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle blissed)",
"name": "enm-verb"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "Early ME"
},
"expansion": "(Early Middle English)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bliss"
},
"name": "enm-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To be glad or joyful."
],
"links": [
[
"glad",
"glad"
],
[
"joyful",
"joyful"
]
],
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To make joyful; to gladden."
],
"links": [
[
"joyful",
"joyful"
],
[
"gladden",
"gladden"
]
],
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblisən/"
}
],
"word": "blissen"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English non-lemma forms",
"Middle English noun forms",
"Middle English verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Happiness"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "blissen",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Early Middle English"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "blisse"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of blisse"
],
"links": [
[
"blisse",
"blisse#Middle_English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Early Middle English) plural of blisse"
],
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "blissen"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Happiness"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "blissen",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "blessen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of blessen"
],
"links": [
[
"blessen",
"blessen#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English",
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "blissen"
}
Download raw JSONL data for blissen meaning in All languages combined (8.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (9e2b7d3 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.