Definition of "bliss" []

• Extreme happiness; ecstasy. (noun)
• The ecstasy of salvation; spiritual joy. (noun)
• Bliss out Slang To go into a state of ecstasy. (phrasal-verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Our bliss, as far as the term bliss applies to a slave's situation, was now complete in this respect, for a season; for never had we been so pleasantly situated before; but, reader, behold its cruel termination."
• "If this propaganda bliss is anything like their last one:"
• "Instead, when my heartis burdened by tragedy or in bliss reaching new milestones my penflows in flurries, in agile verse, in melodic turns and phrases."