Beatification

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of beatifying or of rendering or pronouncing happy; the state of being blessed; blessedness.
  • noun. In the Roman Catholic Church, the act by which a deceased person is declared to be beatified, or one of the blessed, and therefore a proper subject of a certain degree or kind of public religious honor.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of “the blessed,” or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the Roman Catholic Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, — usually a stage in the process of canonization.
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  • noun. (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization
  • noun. the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy
  • noun. a state of supreme happiness
    • Word Usage
    "Step 2, in beatification, it seems is also drinking."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    action  sanctification  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    canonisation  conxict  dinner-party  face-about  hagiology  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aggrandizement  apotheosis  ascent  assumption  beatitude  
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