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

I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine.

From Literature

“All hail, sage lady, whom a grateful isle hath blest,” says a photographer to Elizabeth at the end of Season 1, aptly quoting the patriotic doggerel of Wordsworth’s “Ecclesiastical Sonnets.”

From New York Times

When Lord Grosvenor raised a cup carved from Shakespeare’s mulberry tree, treating the “blest relic” as if it were a chalice filled with Communion wine, the eyebrows of the more puritan present were raised high.

From New York Times

“Protection she shall find in me. In me, be ever blest.”

From Washington Post

It is “twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”

From New York Times

Related Words

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