beatitude

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Religious folks have words for such spasmodic departures from the everyday, like beatitude, nirvana, ecstasy.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2025

There is no Dante in Beatrice’s beatitude, Hägglund writes, and no Beatrice in Dante’s beatitude.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

It also supplies a backdrop of human folly to throw the beatitude of Adam and his robot kin into sharp relief.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2019

As he understood it, enlightenment is not a state of permanent bliss and beatitude.

From Scientific American • Oct. 29, 2017

A smile as of celestial beatitude came over his countenance, though I knew not wherefore he was thus rejoiced.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)