BLEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blest mean? 

• BLEST (adjective)
  The adjective BLEST has 1 sense:

1. highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)

  Familiarity information: BLEST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLEST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)

Synonyms:

blessed; blest

Context example:

the blessed assurance of a steady income

Similar:

fortunate; golden (supremely favored)

 Context examples 

A soft hope blest with my sorrow that soon I should dare to drop a kiss on that brow of rock, and on those lips so sternly sealed beneath it: but not yet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am so blest, Trotwood—my heart is so overcharged—but there is one thing I must say.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"'E's got mindin' the animiles so long that blest if he ain't like a old wolf 'isself! But there ain't no 'arm in 'im."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We were all of one mind that it was best to have the ten thousand with the curse; but in some way they prevailed upon Sir John, so that we were blest and shriven against our will.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Blest if she ain't in silk from head to foot; ain't it a relishin' sight to see her settin' there as fine as a fiddle, and hear folks calling little Amy 'Mis. Laurence!' muttered old Hannah, who could not resist frequent peeks through the slide as she set the table in a most decidedly promiscuous manner.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I wrote her a long letter, in which I tried to make her comprehend how blest I was, and what a darling Dora was.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These are certainly her limbs, and these her features; but I cannot be so blest, after all my misery.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So the young pair shook hands upon it, and then paced happily on again, feeling that their pleasant home was more homelike because they hoped to brighten other homes, believing that their own feet would walk more uprightly along the flowery path before them, if they smoothed rough ways for other feet, and feeling that their hearts were more closely knit together by a love which could tenderly remember those less blest than they.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“And in short, my dear friend,” said I, “you feel as blest as you deserve to feel!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)