Beatitude vs. Beatific — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Beatitude and Beatific
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Beatitude
Supreme blessedness or happiness.
Beatific
Showing or producing exalted joy or blessedness
A beatific smile.
Beatitude
Beatitude Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
Beatific
Blessed, blissful, heavenly.
Beatitude
Beatitude Used as a title and form of address for a patriarch in the Armenian Church or a metropolitan in the Russian Orthodox Church
Your Beatitude.
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Beatific
Having a benign appearance.
Beatitude
(uncountable) Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness.
Beatific
Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful.
Beatitude
Any one 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).
Beatific
Experiencing or bestowing celestial joy;
Beatific peace
Beatitude
Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
Beatific
Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint;
Angelic benificence
A beatific smile
A saintly concern for his fellow men
My sainted mother
Beatitude
Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.
Beatitude
Beatification.
Beatitude
A state of supreme happiness
Beatitude
One of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed);
Her favorite Beatitude is `Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'
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