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Beatification

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Noun

1. beatification, beatitude, blessedness

a state of supreme happiness

2. beatification

the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy

3. beatification

(Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Beatification

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noun
1. 
a beatifying or being beatified
2.  Roman Catholic Church
a. 
investigation, now formal, of whether a deceased person should be publicly declared to be in heaven and so entitled to some public veneration: an affirmative decision may lead to canonization
b. 
a public declaration, now made only by the pope, ratifying an affirmative decision arrived at through this investigation

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Beatification

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tr.v. be·at·i·fied, be·at·i·fy·ing, be·at·i·fies
1. Roman Catholic Church To proclaim (a deceased person) to be one of the blessed and thus worthy of public religious veneration in a particular region or religious congregation.
2. To exalt; glorify: "There was no dearth of criticism even after Beethoven was beatified" (Paul Henry Lang).

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