Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Perfect happiness.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo feel bliss; (by extension) to reach a state of bliss or ecstasy.
From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).
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