Latin beatificus "making happy or blessed, blessing"
(sometimes said to be from Latin bellus "pretty, agreeable" but this is erroneous)
As a term for physical attractivemess, beauty replaced Old English wlite
"Thus mesmerized and delighted by the aethereal beauty of the revelation, they each spontaneously exhaled a gasp of true love. It could also be called ecstasy, or bliss, or any other word that boldly attempts to describe that which is entirely beyond linguistic containment, or language."
"Originals"
~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
⚜ | classic definition |
☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |