BLESSING

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of one who blesses.

2.
n.

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. Deut. xxxiii. 1.

3.
n.

A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift. Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed. Milton.

4.
n.

A gift. [A Hebraism] Gen. xxxiii. 11.

5.
n.

Grateful praise or worship.


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