Beatifically
bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like:
beatific peace.
blissful; saintly:
a beatific smile.
Historical Examples
beatifically he breathed whiskied breath at me as he stared in unsteady surprise.
Eastern Nights – and Flights Alan Bott
Did you ever see anything so beatifically happy as that couple are?
Miss Billy’s Decision Eleanor H. Porter
He righted himself, looked astonished, then beatifically self-approving.
The Planet Strappers Raymond Zinke Gallun
The miner’s daughter was so beatifically happy that the girls found a new and most satisfying thrill in her enjoyment.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Laura Lee Hope
Often Beth would smile so beatifically that her mother thought she must be thinking of angels and heaven.
A Little Florida Lady Dorothy C. Paine
He was more excited than he had ever been in his life before,—and yet he was beatifically serene.
From the Housetops George Barr McCutcheon
adjective
displaying great happiness, calmness, etc: a beatific smile
of, conferring, or relating to a state of celestial happiness
adj.
1630s, from French béatifique or directly from Late Latin beatificus, from Latin beatus “blessed” (see beatify). Related: Beatifical (c. 1600); beatifically.
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