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a. Always enjoying blessedness. b. Worthy to be always blessed or adored. Also absol. (quasi-sb.)
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnarium, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 6. The thought … Which on their Spirits was impress’d, When they beheld the Ever-bless’d. Ibid. (a. 1711), Hymenotheo, ibid. III. 375. The Pray’r flew first of Mary ever-bless’d, Her Love invigorating all the rest.
1738. Wesley, ‘All praise to Him,’ v. And bless the Ever-bless’d.
1842. Manning, Serm. (1848), I. xiii. 179. The power of the ever-blessed Trinity.
