blissen

present singular third person blissens · participle present blissening · participle past blissened · past blissened

1. transitiveTo make blissful or happy; fill with or impart bliss to

   All solemnly and thankfully I feel its blissening power As ringing out victoriously.

   1860, Anne Bowman, Esperanza: My Journey Thither and what I Found There, page 314

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   True goodness infallibly blissens the bosom in which it assumes an influential position.

   1840, Henry Wright, Retrospective Sketch

   I very unceremoniously hid her in my heart and took her to my room to blissen my dreams.

   1846, The American Whig Review, volume 3, page 377

   Why the immense self-pleasure that mental culture would afford, and the blissening consciousness of doing good with it to those around him.

   1969, Robert Owen, The New Moral World, volume 8, page 375

   Synonyms: beatify, elate, beatify, enrapture, begladden, bright, cheer, fetch