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bliss: n.

[OE. blís (acc. blíse) str. fem. = OS. blîdsea, blîtzea, blîzza:

OTeut. type *blîsjâ- f. *blîi-s, Goth. bleis, OS. blîthi, OE. blíe blithe, joyous + suffix -sjâ-, standing, after dentals, for original -tjâ (cf. L. lætitia). Goth. has, instead, the parallel form blei-ei:OTeut. *blî-în-. In later OE. by assimilation and vowel-shortening blís became bliss, blis, ME. blisse: cf. OE. milds, milts (:OTeut. *mild-sjâ- = *mild-tjâ-) mildness, clemency, ME. milze, milce, milse. The meaning of bliss and that of bless have mutually influenced each other since an early period; cf. BLESS v.¹; confusion of spelling is frequent from the time of Wyclif to the 17th c. Hence the gradual tendency to withdraw bliss from earthly ‘blitheness’ to the beatitude of the blessed in heaven, or that which is likened to it.]

1. Blitheness of aspect toward others, kindness of manner; ‘light of one's countenance,’ ‘smile.’ (Only in OE.)

a1000 Metr. Bth. ii. 30 Hi me towendon heora bacu bitere and heora blisse from.

2. Blitheness; gladness; joy, delight, enjoyment: a. physical, social, mundane: passing at length into b.

971 Blickl. Hom. 3 Maria cende one Drihten on blisse. a1000 Cotton Psalm l. 99 (Gr.) Sæle nu blidse me, bilewit dryhten. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 115 Hie weren swo blie at hie ne mihten mid worde here blisse tellen. c1340 Cursor M. 1013 (Trin.) Mony oere blisses elles, Floures at ful swete smelles. c1380 WYCLIF Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 234 Two blessis ben,blesse of e soule and blisse of e bodi. c1386 CHAUCER Man of Law's T. 1021 This glade folk to dyner they hem sette; In ioye and blisse at mete I lete hem dwelle. a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 55 She lost alle worshipe, richesse, ese, and blysse. 1535 STEWART Cron. Scot. III. 268 Tha rouch rillingis, of blis that war full bair. 1593 SHAKES. 2 Hen. VI, I. ii. 31 And all that Poets faine of Blisse and Ioy. 1667 MILTON P.L. IV. 508 These two Imparadis't in one anothers arms..shall enjoy thir fill Of bliss on bliss. 1806 WORDSW. Ode Immortality 86 Behold the Child among his new-born blisses. 1841 L. HUNT Seer (1864) 54 He does not sufficiently sympathise with our towns and our blisses of Society.

b. Mental, ethereal, spiritual: perfect joy or felicity, supreme delight; blessedness. (Early instances difficult to separate from prec.)

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 15 Blisse and lisse ic sende. a1300 Cursor M. 605 A land o lijf, o beld, and blis, e quilk man clepes paradis. c1380 WYCLIF Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 142 To lyve evere in blis wiouten peyne. 1483 CAXTON G. de la Tour Fiij, The grete reame of blysse and glory. 1591 SHAKES. 1 Hen. VI, V. v. 64 The contrarie bringeth blisse, And is a patterne of Celestiall peace. 1597 HOOKER Eccl. Pol. V. xxii. §13 To them whose delight..is in the Law..that happiness and bliss belongeth. a1649 DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Cypr. Grove Wks. 31 O only blest, and Author of all bliss. Ibid. 26 All bless returning with the Lord of bliss. 1667 MILTON P.L. VIII. 522 The sum of earthly bliss Which I enjoy. 1747 GRAY Ode Eton Coll., Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. 1764 GOLDSM. Trav. 62 May gather bliss, to see my fellows blest. 1875 B. TAYLOR Faust I. xii. 141 The purest bliss was surely then thy dower.

c. esp. The perfect joy of heaven; the beatitude of departed souls. Hence, the place of bliss, paradise, heaven.

971 Blickl. Hom. 25 We maon..éce blisse eearnian. a1225 Juliana 21 Ich schal blie bicumen to endelese blissen. a1300 Cursor M. 17972 Fro helle to paradys at blis. c1384 WYCLIF Sel. Wks. III. 344 He [the pope] is not blessid in is lif, for blis falli to the toir lyf. 1509 HAWES Examp. Virt. i. 12, I wyll..brynge thy soule to blesse eterne. 1593 SHAKES. 3 Hen. VI, III. iii. 182 By the hope I haue of heauenly blisse. 1607 T. WALKINGTON Opt. Glass 65 The soul is..wrapt up into an Elysium and paradise of blesse. 1667 MILTON P.L. I. 607 Far other once beheld in bliss. 1781 COWPER Truth 301 The path to bliss abounds with many a snare. 1871 MORLEY Voltaire (1886) 255 Any one who accepted them in the concrete and literal form prescribed by the church, would share infinite bliss.

d. concr. A cause of happiness, joy, or delight.

a1000 Ags. Ps. (Spelm.) xxxi. 9 (Bosw.) ú eart blis mín. c1386 CHAUCER Nun's Pr. T. 346 Womman is mannes Ioye and al his blis. 1850 TENNYSON In Mem. xcvii. 26 A wither'd violet is her bliss.

3. Glory. (Translating gloria and .) Obs.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 115 Quis est iste rex glorie? hwat is is blissene king. a1300 Cursor M. 8100 e king o blis. 1387 TREVISA Higden II. 363 Hercules is i-seide of heros at is a man, and of cleos at is blisse; as ey Hercules were to menynge a blisful man and glorious.

4. a bliss of birds: a blithe singing, a ‘choir.’

c1430 LYDG. Min. Poems 228 A blysse of bryddes me bad abyde, For cause there song mo then one.

5. Comb. a. objective, as bliss-giving, bliss-making adjs.; b. adverbial, as bliss-bright.

1610 HEALEY St. Aug. Citie of God 309 This blesse-affording good. 1645 BP. HALL Content. 103 The blisse-making vision of God. 1839 BAILEY Festus xiv. (1848) 147 The bliss-bright stars. 1876 GEO. ELIOT Dan. Der. II. xxvii. 184 The bliss-giving ‘yes.’

bliss n. (alternate)

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