blest

[ UK /blˈɛst/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫɛst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
    our blessed land
    the blessed assurance of a steady income
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How To Use blest In A Sentence

  • I again affirm that I need make no apology for attaching my name to that of one so worthy the esteem of his co-dogs, ay, and co-cats too; for in spite of the differences which have so often raised up a barrier between the members of his race and ours, not even the noblest among us could be degraded by raising a "mew" to the honour of such a thoroughly honest dog. The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too
  • Excepting his quaint epithets which he affects to render literally from the Greek, a language above all others blest in the happy marriage of sweet words, and which in our language are mere printer's compound epithets -- such as quaffed divine Literary Remains, Volume 1
  • He never complained, except when he occasionally slipped on muddy cobblestones.
  • All went down alike before their charge, my lord and my lady, the Prince of the Blood, and the humblest page who bore his pouncet box. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV
  • Blest are they that dwell within thy house, they praise thy name evermore. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the same time one must not miss the subtilty of the context, nor the unpleasant messages that can be conveyed in the humblest of fashions. Not only are they better capitalists, but better peacemakers too? « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.
  • Were here, announced Jace as the smooth roll of wheels over pavement turned to the jounce of cobblestones. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
  • The noblest work of God?Man, Who found it out?Man. 
  • The RT enzyme converts the single-stranded virion into doublestranded DNA for subsequent integration into the host cell genome.
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