blest

verb

1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic spelling of blessed.

   “Cradled by majestic mountains Blest with nature's flowing fountains”

adj

1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic spelling of blessed.

   “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?”

   “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.”

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

   “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.”

   “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; […]”