bliss 
bliss (blis)
noun
- great joy or happiness
- spiritual joy; heavenly rapture
- any cause of bliss
Etymology: ME blisse < OE bliss, bliths, joy < blithe, blithe
intransitive verb, transitive verb
to experience or produce ecstasy or intense pleasure or satisfaction from or as if from a hallucinogenic drug or a mystical experience: usually with out
Preposition: of
- heaven: Should you be ushered into glory to experience the bliss of heaven having never known pain?
- solitude: You are unlikely, tho, to enjoy the view in the " bliss of solitude " that Wordsworth commended.
Converse of object
- wed: We wish them a lifetime of wedded bliss together.
- bubble: This practice creates bubbling bliss for the individual, maximum coherence in brain functioning, and a positive influence throughout the environment.
- enjoy: Many also came with yearning of soul to enjoy the bliss of God.
- achieve: The love and romance psychic can help you achieve divine bliss and happiness in your love life.
- bring: People believe that wearing pearls on their wedding day will bring bliss to their marriage.
- experience: Should you be ushered into glory to experience the bliss of heaven having never known pain?
Adjective modifier
- marital: Lynsey decided that marital bliss needn't mean weight gain.
- eternal: Reading takes me to eternal bliss where I don't know where the current is going to take me.
- everlasting: The soul then once more became a god and enjoyed everlasting bliss.
- sheer: What sheer bliss not to have to clock watch any more!
- heavenly: He has not yet entered into the highest experience of heavenly bliss that God has in store for him.
- pure: The small boy is just stuffing her into his mouth with a look of pure bliss on his face.
Modifies a noun
- glamor: For direly dehydrated hands, you can leave bliss glamor gloves on overnight.
- peel: We'd wholeheartedly recommend bliss sleeping peel serum, our best-selling amino acid exfoliating serum.
- lemon: The perfect prep: bliss lemon + sage body scrub.
- sleeping: We'd wholeheartedly recommend bliss sleeping peel serum, our best-selling amino acid exfoliating serum.
- glove: For direly dehydrated hands, you can leave bliss glamor gloves on overnight.
- wrinkle: We recommend bliss baggage handler, or for more mature skin, bliss wrinkle twinkle.
Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind, Whose words are images of thoughts refined, Is my soul's pleasure; and it sure must be Almost the highest bliss of human-kind, When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.
Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.
Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy! For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood Upon our side, we who were strong in love! Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!
For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart wih pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss!
Some dish more sharply spiced than this Milk-soup men call domestic bliss.
Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find That it excels all other bliss That world affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most men have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
When his darling sons Hurled headlong to partake with us, shall curse Their frail original, and faded bliss, Faded so soon.
These two Emparadised in one another's arms The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill Of bliss on bliss.
What heaven-entreated heart is this, Stands trembling at the gate of bliss, Holds fast the door, yet dares not venture Fairly to open it, and enter?
To each his suff'rings, all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th'unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
What though my winge' d hours of bliss have been, Like angel-visits, fewand far between? 186
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