bi ae tih tud
noun
1. absolute or supreme happiness or blessedness.
The tax-collector walked behind his wife, and watching her downcast, sorrowful, humiliated little figure, he recalled the look of beatitude which had so irritated him at the club, and the consciousness that the beatitude was gone filled his soul with triumph. (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories)
2. (often cap.) any of the nine declarations of blessedness in the Sermon on the Mount, made by Jesus Christ.
“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth” is one of the Beatitudes.