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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
beatify .
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Examples
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Benedict will return to the square in exactly one week to lead a crowd expected to be at least double Easter's turnout when he beatifies John Paul, putting the Polish-born, long-serving pontiff on the last formal step before eventual sainthood.
In Easter Message, Pope Urges Diplomacy in Libya Associated Press 2011
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Beatification: Once the miracle process is approved by the cardinals and the pope, the pope beatifies the candidate.
The Happiest Human 2008
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Where “Washerloop” goes for dance-floor agitation, this track beatifies its source material, ascending from the mundane concerns of the muffled conversation toward something heavenly, the come-hither voices of the Information Age sirens.
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From this, results the glory of God, who unites the church to himself and beatifies her, which glory is declared in the very act of union and beatification -- also the glory of the same blessed God, when the church in her triumphant songs ascribes to him praise, honour and glory forever and ever.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956
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In this sense, the gift of grace which makes the ungodly just is greater than the gift of glory which beatifies the just.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954
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First by way of an abiding form, and thus it beatifies the saints in heaven.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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They had two meals with Carol's sister, and were bored, and felt that intimacy which beatifies married people when they suddenly admit that they equally dislike a relative of either of them.
Main Street 1920
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They had two meals with Carol's sister, and were bored, and felt that intimacy which beatifies married people when they suddenly admit that they equally dislike a relative of either of them.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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May 1, 2011 Pope beatifies John Paul II before 1M faithful AP
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Pope beatifies John Paul before 1 million faithful
The Seattle Times 2011
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