"beatitude" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /biːˈætɪtjuːd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /biˈætɪtud/ [General-American] Audio: en-uk-beatitude.opus [Received-Pronunciation], en-us-beatitude.opus [General-American] Forms: beatitudes [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English beatitude, beatytude, from Middle French béatitude, from Latin beātitūdō (“happiness, blessedness”), from beātus (“happy, blessed”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|beatitude}} Middle English beatitude, {{der|en|frm|béatitude}} Middle French béatitude, {{der|en|la|beātitūdō||happiness, blessedness}} Latin beātitūdō (“happiness, blessedness”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} beatitude (countable and uncountable, plural beatitudes)
  1. (uncountable) Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness. Tags: uncountable Translations (supreme, utmost bliss and happiness): блаженство (blaženstvo) (Bulgarian), gelukzaligheid (Dutch), autuus (Finnish), béatitude [feminine] (French), Glückseligkeit [feminine] (German), boldogság (Hungarian), beannaitheacht [feminine] (Irish), beatitudine [feminine] (Italian), блаженство (blaženstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), رستگاری (Persian), błogosławieństwo [neuter] (Polish), beatitudine [feminine] (Romanian), блаже́нство (blažénstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), раюва́ння (rajuvánnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
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  2. Any of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5). Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: makarism
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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.