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Blessing   /blˈɛsɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Blessing  n.  
1.
The act of one who blesses.
2.
A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. "This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel."
3.
A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift. "Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed."
4.
(Bib.) A gift. (A Hebraism)
5.
Grateful praise or worship.


verb
Bless  v. t.  (past & past part. blessed or blest; pres. part. blessing)  
1.
To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it."
2.
To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to. "The quality of mercy is... twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." "It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee."
3.
To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; applied to persons. "Bless them which persecute you."
4.
To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, as on food. "Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them."
5.
To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). (Archaic)
6.
To guard; to keep; to protect. (Obs.)
7.
To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. "Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name."
8.
To esteem or account happy; to felicitate. "The nations shall bless themselves in him."
9.
To wave; to brandish. (Obs.) "And burning blades about their heads do bless." "Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest." Note: This is an old sense of the word, supposed by Johnson, Nares, and others, to have been derived from the old rite of blessing a field by directing the hands to all parts of it. "In drawing (their bow) some fetch such a compass as though they would turn about and bless all the field."
Bless me! Bless us! an exclamation of surprise.
To bless from, to secure, defend, or preserve from. "Bless me from marrying a usurer." "To bless the doors from nightly harm."
To bless with, To be blessed with, to favor or endow with; to be favored or endowed with; as, God blesses us with health; we are blessed with happiness.





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"Blessing" Quotes from Famous Books



... to rejoice at his so great happiness than if he had seen him a thousand times king of the whole earth, and his life and kingdom secured to him for ten thousand years. What treasures would not have been well employed to purchase for him such a soul as his was rendered by virtue, could this blessing have been procured for money? He displays the falsehood of worldly pleasure; the inconstancy, anxiety, trouble, grief, and bitterness of all its enjoyments, and says that no king can give so sensible a joy as the very ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler
... acknowledging of shaked her head, bit her lips and her fingers, and sometimes broke forth into passion and these words; 'Non est veritas, et utinam'—On his praising virginity, she said to the orator, 'God's blessing of thy heart, there continue.' After that he showed what joy the university had of her presence" &c. "When he had done she commended him, and much marvelled that his memory did so well serve him, repeating such diverse and sundry matters; saying that she would answer him again in Latin, ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians shall come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel ...
— The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 • Joseph Wild
... friend stout-hearted, What does it matter for rain or shine, For the hopes deferred and the gain departed? Nothing could conquer that heart of thine. And thy health and strength are beyond confessing As the only joys that are worth possessing. May the days to come be as rich in blessing As the days we spent in the auld ...
— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens
... anywhere. Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and what you are, in Philadelphia, now. He that can give to his city any blessing, he who can be a good citizen while he lives here, he that can make better homes, he that can be a blessing whether he works in the shop or sits behind the counter or keeps house, whatever be his life, he who would be great ...
— Acres of Diamonds • Russell H. Conwell


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