blest

• blessed
• blessèd (archaic)

• IPA^(key): /blɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

blest

1. Archaic spelling of blessed

blest (comparative more blest, superlative most blest)

1. Archaic spelling of blessed
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     Is ſhe not proud? doth ſhe not count her bleſt, / Vnworthy as ſhe is, that we haue wrought / So worthy a Gentleman to be her Bride?

   • 1831, Henry S[cott] Riddell, “A Song of the Wife of Ham”, in Songs of the Ark: with Other Poems, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], part fourth, page 248:

     Since fate has let the heart go free / That wish’d so warmly to be bound / By the tie which love eternally / Hath fail’d to fasten round, / Leaving the breast in woful thrall / That else had the blestest been of all.

   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “CONCLUSION”, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 307:

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

   • 1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl., The Lyricks, part I (Sonnets, Canzons, Odes, and Sextines), London: Bernard Quaritch, […], page 262:

     Blest who, by worth empower’d, their glory views, / Blester the hand that could one tress obtain, / But blestest he who doth his Soul maintain / Only on glorious lights these locks diffuse.

   • 1951, Thomas Mann, “The Sieur Eisengrein”, in H[elen] T[racy] Lowe-Porter, transl., The Holy Sinner, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →LCCN, pages 48–49:

     Nothing was thereby altered or improved in the desperate case of the brother-sister pair, but to the unblessedly blest maiden it seemed even so that by the mere sending of the squire a way out of their misery was already found; […]

• Belts, belts, blets

blest

1. Alternative form of blast

From Danish blæst, from Old Norse blástr. Doublet of blåst.

blest (definite singular blesten)

1. An incessant wind

   Synonym: blåst

• “blest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.