[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being blissful; joyfulness, happiness.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., IV. ii. 113. Blisfulnesse is þilke same goode þat men requeren.
1382. Wyclif, Gen. xxx. 13. Lya seide, That for my blisfulnes.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par., Mark iii. 35. To be rewarded with euerlasting blissfulnesse.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 3. It is not for me to attend so high a blissefulnesse.
1633. Ford, Broken H., I. iii. (R.). My better stars, that offer’d me the grace Of so much blissfulness.
1858. Neale, Bernard de M., 19. In blissfulness and mirth.
1871. Palgrave, Lyr. Poems, 71. A peace more deep disclosed its blissfulness.
