beatification
Meaning of beatification
- (in the Roman Catholic Church) declaration by the Pope that a dead person is in a state of bliss, constituting a first step towards canonization and permitting public veneration.
a ceremony of beatification in St Peter's Square
early 16th century (in the sense ‘action of making blessed’): from Old French, or from ecclesiastical Latin beatificatio(n- ), from beatificare ‘make blessed’, from Latin beatus ‘blessed’.
Information about beatification
- It is a name.
- The plural form of beatification is: beatifications.
- Languages in which beatification is used:
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Hyphenation of beatification
be-at-i-fi-ca-tion
- It consists of 6 syllables and 13 chars.
- beatification is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
beatification synonyms
Meaning blessedness:
Translation of beatification
- German: Seligsprechung
- French: béatification
- Italian: beatificazione
- Spanish: beatificación
- Portuguese: beatificação
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