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Revision as of 17:11, 20 October 2020
See also: Blessing
English
Etymology
From Middle English blessinge, blessynge, from Old English blētsung, blēdsung (“a blessing”), equivalent to bless + -ing.
Pronunciation
Noun
blessing (plural blessings)
- Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
- A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
- Good fortune.
- (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony.
- The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
- We will not proceed without the executive director's blessing.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas:
- Jocasta had my blessing when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.
- Something someone is glad of.
- After two weeks of sun, last night's rainfall was a blessing.
- A prayer before a meal; grace.
- A group of unicorns.
- 2008, Betsy Schiffman, "Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report", Wired, 11 September 2008:
- And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.
- 2009, Andrew Orlowski, "Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?", The Register, 13 September 2011:
- Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.
- 2011, Suzette Mayr, Monoceros, Coach House Books (2011), →ISBN, page 94:
- She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her blessing of unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically correct unicorns.
- 2008, Betsy Schiffman, "Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report", Wired, 11 September 2008:
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
divine or supernatural aid or reward
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pronouncement invoking divine aid
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good fortune
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(paganism) modern pagan ceremony
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act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor
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thing one is glad of
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prayer before a meal — see grace
group of unicorns
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Verb
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