blest

[ blest ]

adjective

1. a less common spelling variant of blessed.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of bless.

blest

/ blɛst /

verb

1. a past tense and past participle of bless

Word History and Origins

Origin of blest¹

First recorded in 1560–70, for the adjective

Example Sentences

Pleasures are more beneficial than duties because, like the quality of mercy, they are not strained, and they are twice blest.

From Project Gutenberg

"Blest if the old Nonesuch ain't a heppin' us out agin," and he begun to haul out yaller-jackets and stack them up.

From Project Gutenberg

The hare-lip she got to pumping me about England, and blest if I didn't think the ice was getting mighty thin sometimes.

From Project Gutenberg

Blest with their camels, they not only want for nothing, but they even fear nothing.

From Project Gutenberg

He does not say cryptic things or babble trivialities in the name of the mighty Dead—the mighty Damned or the mighty Blest.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cheerful
• delighted
• ecstatic
• elated
• enraptured
• exultant
• glad
• gleeful
• jolly
• joyful
• joyous
• jubilant
• merry
• mirthful
• overjoyed
• thrilled
• up
• upbeat