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/bˌɛnədˈɪkʃən/ Listen

noun

Benediction n.

The act of blessing.

A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness. "So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction." "Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her." Specifically: The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction.

(Eccl.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop.

(R. C. Ch.) A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.

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Etymology of 'Benediction'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Benediction" Quotes from Famous Books

... in his presence, an orison to St. Eutropius, who was implored to grant health to the soul and health to the body. "The latter will be enough," said the king; "it is not right to bother the saint for too many things at once." He showed great devotion for images which had received benediction, and often had one of them sewn upon his hat. Hawkers used to come and bring them to him; and one day he gave a hundred and sixty livres to a pedler who had in his pack one that had received benediction ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume III. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... the stranger, "what a benediction a leg like that is in a family. When you don't want to walk with it, it comes into play for the children to ride horsey on; or you kin take it off and stir the fire with it in a way that would depress the spirits of a man with a real leg. It makes the most efficient potato-masher you ever saw. ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

... however, uses wont as a present only twice in his poetry: as in modern English he uses it as a noun ( custom) or as a participial adj. with the verb to be (Il Pens. 123, "As she was wont"). benison, blessing: radically the same as 'benediction' (Lat. benedictio). ...

— Milton's Comus • John Milton

... he had pronounced the benediction he looked toward the corner again, but the school-master had already left the room. Usually he waited until the others were gone and the two men walked homeward ...

— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen

... poem of Psalm civ—half Whitman, half St. Francis—not only his fellow-man but all creation comes under the benediction of the Hebrew poet's mood. "The high hills are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the conies.... The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God ... man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until the evening." ...

— Chosen Peoples • Israel Zangwill

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