Meaning

A short invocation for help, blessing and guidance from God, said on behalf of another person or persons (sometimes at the end of a church worship service)..

Definitions by Sense

1. A short invocation for help, blessing and guidance from God, said on behalf of another person or persons (sometimes at the end of a church worship service).
2. In the Anglican church, the ceremony used to institute an abbot, analogous to the consecration of a bishop.
3. A Roman Catholic rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water and formally dedicated to God.
4. Help, good fortune or reward from God or another supernatural source.

Example Sentences

to pronounce / give / say the benediction

the nuptial benediction

a parting benediction

O, look upon me, sir, And hold your hands in benediction o’er me.

So saying, he [the angel] arose; whom Adam thus Follow’d with benediction.

My pen (its last scrawl a benediction on my beloved) dropt from my fingers;

Cohen kept on his own hat, and took no notice of the visitor, but stood still while the two children went up to him and clasped his knees: then he laid his hands on each in turn and uttered his Hebrew benediction; whereupon the wife, who had lately taken baby from the cradle, brought it up to her husband and held it under his outstretched hands, to be blessed in its sleep.

Long brahminical hairs sprouted out of his ears, and he drew further attention to himself by closing his eyes, neatly shaking away tears, putting a hand on Owad’s head and speaking a Hindi benediction.

Word Forms

• benedictions

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Use benediction when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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